Black holes are usually framed as the ultimate dead ends of the universe, but a new mathematical proposal suggests they might ...

One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics. Over the course of last year, researchers fulfilled a decades-old dream when they unveiled a proof of ...

Hong Wang, an associate professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, presenting her work on the Kakeya conjecture on March 10, 2025. Credit: David Song/NYU. Professors from NYU and ...

Mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem related to spinning a needle, in what has been hailed as one of the most important mathematical results in recent times. Once seen as “impossible”, the ...

A mathematical breakthrough made this year is so complex that other mathematicians struggled to understand it, but it has already led to progress in other areas of maths. In May, Sam Raskin at Yale ...

It’s no secret that many of us are not too fond of mathematics and geometry, and that it is often too complex. But even so, it can be pretty mind-blowing to look back in history and discover the ...

A Rutgers professor, Pham Tiep, has cracked two major mathematical puzzles, advancing our understanding of symmetries and random processes in numerous scientific fields, ranging from chemistry and ...

After German mathematician Gerd Faltings proved the Mordell conjecture in 1983, he was awarded the Fields Medal, often described as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics.” The conjecture describes the set ...

In an old Indian parable, six blind men each touch a different part of an elephant. They disagree about what the elephant must look like: Is it smooth or rough? Is it like a snake (so thinks the man ...