George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For almost 160 years, the Riemann hypothesis has been one of ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

When Assistant Professor of Mathematics Selvi Kara was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, she started a math club with one of her colleagues to help middle school ...

While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, ...

Constantine Karatheodori is one of the greates mathematicians of the 20th century. He worked with many great minds including ...

A Russian mathematician has developed a new method for analyzing a class of equations that underpin models in physics and economics and have challenged researchers for nearly two centuries.

In high school, I dropped out of calculus with a failing grade. In college in New York’s Hudson Valley, I studied anthropology and film. After college, I took a job that interested me—at least until ...