Professors from NYU and the University of British Columbia have resolved the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions.

Archimedes of Syracuse was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was also a great inventor and scientist. Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those ...

"This is a problem that many of the world's greatest mathematicians have worked on, and for good reason—in addition to having ...

For more than 350 years, a mathematics problem whose solution was considered the Holy Grail to the greatest mathematician minds had remained unsolved. Now, a team of mathematicians led by a ...

This week he is remembered at his alma mater, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), with a conference of leading thinkers and mathematicians ... written about Hamilton’s greatest discovery, the ...