On his way to winning a Fields Medal, James Maynard has cut a path through simple-sounding questions about prime numbers that have stumped mathematicians for centuries. Number theorists, however, ...

Their ambitions were always high. When Will Sawin and Melanie Matchett Wood first started working together in the summer of 2020, they set out to rethink the key components of some of the most ...

An AI model by OpenAI has solved the 80-year-old planar unit distance problem, showcasing its potential to revolutionize research across mathematics and other scientific fields.

A new mathematical framework, built on a branch of number theory called adelic analysis, has produced a complete proof of the ...