“Why look for a counterexample if the conjecture is so obviously true?” wrote Igor Pak, a math professor at UCLA and one of the authors of the new paper, in a blog post on the breakthrough.

a researcher at the Mathematics Münster Cluster of Excellence at the University of Münster has, along with two co-authors, added a new piece to this puzzle: They have proven a conjecture related ...

Pham Tiep, a mathematics professor at Rutgers-New Brunswick, has cracked a pair of mathematical puzzles that have baffled ...