Did a team of mathematicians just take a big step toward answering a 160-year-old, million-dollar question in mathematics? Maybe. The crew did solve a number of other, smaller questions in a field ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — Asked to describe the puzzle that has stumped him for 42 years, Enrico Bombieri takes a piece of chalk out of his pocket and scrawls a lengthy series of numbers and symbols on an ...

A world-renowned retired mathematician claims he has proof to solve a math problem dating back to 1859, potentially worth $1 million. Michael Atiyah, a mathematician who has won several awards ...

A top mathematician has claimed that he has the answer to the Riemann Hypothesis, a 160-year-old puzzle worth $1 million. In a lecture on Monday, Sept. 24, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, ...

Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, the famous Fields Medalist and Abel Prize winner, claims to have solved the Riemann hypothesis. If ...

On average, there are as many prime numbers for which the sum of decimal digits is even as prime numbers for which it is odd. This hypothesis, first made in 1968, has recently been proven by ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An unsolved 160-year-old math problem may finally have a solution — but critics are wary. Michael ...

The reality we understand and interact with daily might, according to some scientists, be nothing more than an elaborate ...

If a gun control law saves even a single life, it's worth it. As a mathematician, I call this logical fallacy reasoning by incomplete hypothesis. My favorite example of this form of unreason is the ...