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, ...

Imagine you're walking down a path, minding your own business, when suddenly you find yourself trapped in a net thrown on you by an evil troll. He poses a challenge to you: he will give you a sequence ...

In his rapid ascent to the top of his field, James Maynard has cut a path through simple-sounding questions about prime numbers that have stumped mathematicians for centuries. When James Maynard was ...

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Texas banker is upping the ante to $1 million for whoever solves a tricky problem that's been dogging mathematicians since the 1980s. The Providence, R.I.-based American ...

It’s not often that a mathematics textbook is described as “gorgeous” or “a work of practical art.” But An Illustrated Theory of Numbers by Martin Weissman, associate professor of mathematics at UC ...

After the star-studded mystery thriller The Number 23 debuted in cinemas in 2007, many people became convinced that they were seeing the eponymous number everywhere. I was in school at that time, and ...