In mid-October, Justin Gilmer flew from California to New York to attend a friend’s wedding. While on the East Coast he visited his former adviser, Michael Saks, a mathematician at Rutgers University, ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1993, Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century—posed a question with two ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A mathematician may have just proved the impossible possible. For 30 years, ...