The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

This story is part of a series from the Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. At the Erikson Institute, a child-development-focused graduate school in Chicago, this annual ...

In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...