Ian Stewart's Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems is an entertaining and fresh look at some of the most vexing problems facing the field of mathematics. We asked him to pick the ...

An artificial intelligence system has successfully solved a complex mathematical problem, originally designed 20 years ago to ...

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Optical Illusion: Today’s optical illusion is a special one for math overs. No, we didn't find you the solution for the hardest math problem or we won’t be asking you to solve the hardest problem or ...

How bees, beer cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...