In the early 1930s, the renowned Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős set forth a puzzle. Erdős offered $500 to anyone who could crack it. Called the Erdős discrepancy problem, a puzzle that surmised ...

Late last January, University of Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers decided to run a little experiment. Was it possible, he wondered, for a large number of mathematicians to collaborate openly on the ...

President Park Hyung-ju of Ajou University lectures on the mathematicians' Polymath Project at Polymath Day, held at Ajou University on August 3. -Courtesy of Donga Math- “Today's event is a very ...

As gaming platforms like Roblox and Minecraft continue to grow in popularity among young children, and with platforms like YouTube consuming hours of their daily screen time, edtech companies face ...

While these properties may a priori seem different, in fact they turn out to be equivalent. The nontrivial implication amounts to saying that there does not exist a non-abelian group with a "norm". We ...

The stereotype of a mathematician is someone locked away in a research lab, solving problems alone. Someone who spends all day silently racking their brain. But in reality, that's not the case. They ...

A maths problem previously tackled with the help of a computer, which produced a proof the size of Wikipedia, has now been cut down to size by a human. Although it is unlikely to have practical ...