For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Or maybe you pay for coffee, and the change is exactly $3.33? It happens once, you brush it off. But then it happens again.

However, achieving this universally accepted “order fairness” is fundamentally impossible unless it is assumed that all nodes can communicate instantaneously (i.e., operating in an instant synchronous ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.