This math problem has been the hardest in the world for almost 30 years, and it’s seriously insane Everything I learned in math class exists in a comfy, well-insulated corner of my mind, not to be ...

Despite the greatest strides in mathematics, these hard math problems remain unsolved. Take a crack at them yourself.

“What is the hardest math problem in the world?” asked students in Amy Mueller’s fourth-grade class at the Hoover Math & Science Academy, Schaumburg. In the early 1900s, French ...

These ten brutally difficult math problems once seemed impossible until mathematicians eventually solved them—even if it took them years, decades, or centuries.

The International Math Olympiad (IMO) is a brainy battleground where the world’s most talented teenage mathematicians wrestle with devilishly difficult math problems. It’s long been considered ...

In new research, mathematicians have narrowed down one of the biggest outstanding problems in math.

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...