Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner ...

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a ...

Every year, mathematicians, educators, and enthusiasts mark March 14 as Pi Day, celebrating one of the most fundamental ...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said there’s a deep connection between science and spirituality, as he fondly ...

Researchers have demonstrated, using a novel approach, that the original solution to Dudeney’s famous dissection problem is ...

Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton died ... A lot has been written about Hamilton’s greatest discovery, the quaternion equations which described the relative movement of objects in ...

Each year, on March 14, it's become traditional for numerophiles and mathematicians to pause and reflect on the most famous ...

Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a university chair in math, yet her life was marked by paradox. Though brilliant, rich and famous, she eventually ...