Mathematician finally solves infamous moving sofa problem popularised by Friends ‘pivot’ scene - Scientific American jokes ...

Carina Hong, 24, raised $64 million to build an AI mathematician that discovers new theorems and solves century-old problems.

Researchers uncover the mathematical structure behind mesmerizing tiling patterns, linking their visual appeal to the ...

Renowned mathematician Joel David Hamkins finds current AI systems unreliable for mathematical reasoning, citing their ...

This month, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win one of the field’s most prestigious awards, the Abel Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ...

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz ...

It might have escaped lay people at the time, but for some observers the ascension of Leo XIV as head of the Catholic Church this year was a reminder that the last time a Pope Leo sat in St. Peter’s ...

A famous problem in mathematics that has remained unsolved for almost 160 years probably still is — despite a new claim by a retired mathematician that he has cracked it. Michael Atiyah, a professor ...