If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua ...

They will also learn how to convey mathematical ideas and write proofs using precise language, correct logic, and other important elements.

By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of ...

Two years later, the Russian mathematician Abram Besicovitch found the answer: a complicated set of narrow turns that ... using Kakeya to build up proofs of these successively more ambitious ...