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

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 ...

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

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered a ...

When the 75-year-old maths genius left Harvard, many thought he would retire. Instead, he is nurturing the next generation of ...

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 ...

The Egyptians didn’t know what fractions were, they had no idea. Prior to the great Arabic mathematicians of the Middle Ages, there were no such things as negative numbers. Nobody knew they ...

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 ...

I had the great fortune to end up working with John Morgan at Columbia ... and then he would invite over to his house all the musically inclined mathematicians, having us play, both with him and ...

Nalanda contributed to the development and evolution of two major Mahayana Buddhist philosophies — Madhyamaka and Yogacara, Abhay K writes in his book, 'Nalanda: How it Changed the World'. Excerpts: ...