A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture described as a “holy grail of additive combinatorics.” Within a month, a loose collaboration verified it ...

Take Fermat’s Last Theorem, for example: short and sweet enough to scribble in a margin, but a proof took more than 350 years and the development of multiple new fields of math to find.

While the rule of 72 is a useful rule of thumb to estimate investment returns, using an online calculator or a compound ...