How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Chinese mathematicians have resolved the loose end of a “doomsday hypothesis” that had long puzzled the mathematical community. The feat was made possible through major computational methods which ...

When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...