The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set of possibilities for mathematics, from computer science to cryptography ...

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...

Using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics, the team has derived a general equation for any number of tangent ...