The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

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The story of 1729 chronicles the remarkable relationship between British mathematician GH Hardy and Indian mathematical savant Srinivasa Ramanujan, wh.

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After the star-studded mystery thriller The Number 23 debuted in cinemas in 2007, many people became convinced that they were seeing the eponymous number everywhere. I was in school at that time, and ...

OpenAI has revealed a breakthrough proof that overturns a nearly 80-year-old geometry conjecture posed by Paul Erdős.

Their ambitions were always high. When Will Sawin and Melanie Matchett Wood first started working together in the summer of 2020, they set out to rethink the key components of some of the most ...

The Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands has won the 2018 Abel Prize—one of mathematics’ most-prestigious awards—for discovering surprising and far-ranging connections between algebra, number ...