“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 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 ...