Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

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Some numbers are useful. Some are famous. And then there is pi, a number so absurdly powerful that humanity has spent ...

Every year on March 14, classrooms, universities and research institutions across the world turn their attention to a subject ...