It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

Dr. Stan Veuger breaks down the math that President Donald Trump’s administration used to calculate the tariffs and says there’s an error in the equation.

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

By solving part of the Langlands program, a mathematical proof that was long thought to be unachievable, Dennis Gaitsgory ...

The 2025 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize has been awarded to Ewain Gwynne of the University of Chicago, for his work in conformal probability, which studies probabilistic objects such as random ...

Dennis Gaitsgory, an Israeli-American who was then a math professor at Harvard University, co-wrote a petition asking the two leading Israeli politicians — conservative Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist ...

Dennis Gaitsgory receives the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, endowed with 3 million US dollars “for foundational ...

Dennis Gaitsgory receives the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, endowed with 3 million US dollars "for foundational ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring scientists driving ...

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely narrow needle, kept mathematicians ...

American universities are experiencing a noticeable decline in the mathematical proficiency of incoming students, as ...