The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

What if we told you that one of the most famous theorems you learn in school — the Pythagorean theorem — was known in India centuries before Pythagoras was born? And what if that knowledge was wrapped ...