In the distraction of the scandal-fever swirling through Washington and the news media, you might have missed the announcement the other day that one of the great puzzles of number theory had been ...

It sounds like a feel-good Hollywood hit. A virtual unknown comes out of nowhere to pull off an upset, achieving success where many have failed. Who knows whether a mathematical breakthrough would ...

DURHAM - Since 1999, Yitang "Tom" Zhang, 57, has been unassumingly teaching calculus classes at the University of New Hampshire as a well-liked lecturer. He is not a tenure-tracked professor, and ...

University of New Hampshire professor Yitang Zhang announced this week that he has come close to solving a centuries-old problem: proving the twin... Prime Challenge Sends Mathematicians On Infinite ...

Yitang Zhang, a number theorist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has posted a paper on arXiv that hints at the possibility that he may have solved the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture.