By extending the scope of a key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward ...

Tetris pushes even supercomputers to their limits and amazes mathematicians As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the ...

Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical.

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.