The problem is so confusing that even its proposed solution, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT), has been difficult for experts to understand. Recently, an expert published his understanding ...

What is the famous Sunflower Conjecture, ... The story of this math problem—like so many others—starts with a Hungarian mathematician named Paul Erdős, ... The definition is flexible, ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology doctoral student was part of a team of researchers that settled a 90-year-old math problem called Keller’s conjecture. David Narváez, who studies computing ...

Ruzsa published Marton’s conjecture in 1999, giving her full credit. “She came to that conjecture independently of me and Freiman, and probably before us,” he said. “That’s why, when I talked to her, ...

But the fact that the conjecture is true was no surprise at all. Mathematicians have a reputation of being no-bullshit hard cases who don’t believe a thing until it’s locked down and proved.

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a ...

Math’s “Rosetta Stone:” Yale professor proves decades-old mathematical conjecture. Yale professor Sam Raskin led a team to prove the geometric Langlands conjecture, solving a major part of one of math ...

The abc conjecture, which Conrad has called “one of the outstanding conjectures in number theory,” starts with one of the simplest equations imaginable: a + b = c. The three numbers a, b and c ...

The Collatz Conjecture is a deceptively simple math problem. It has only two rules. First, pick any number. If it's even, divide it by two. If it's odd, multiply it by three and add one. This will ...