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 ...
Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...
The seven Millennium Prize Problems represent some of the hardest unsolved questions in mathematics, including one famously solved by Grigory Perelman, who refused the million-dollar reward.