A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical ...

Meet Bille, the name given to the world's first monostable tetrahedron—a four-faced object that will always land on the same ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

This geometric figure — first identified by dentist William Bonwill in 1864 — is formed by connecting the two points where ...

A London dentist has solved a mathematical mystery that has puzzled scholars for centuries by identifying a hidden geometric ...

Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other ...

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Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician ...

Joshua Zahl, the American mathematician who recently solved the century-old Kakeya conjecture, is leaving Canada's UBC for a ...

Mathematician Joshua Zahl made headlines for solving the 100-year-old math problem Kakeya conjecture. He is now leaving ...