“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 game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the ...

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 ...

A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM ...

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

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones ...

Mochizuki, 54, claimed his theory constituted a proof for the ABC Conjecture. Mochizuki worked ... One of them is Ivan Fesenko, a math professor at the University of Warwick in Britain, who ...