MILWAUKEE -- One local student is making his mark in the field of mathematics, and next month, will travel to Washington D.C. to present his research to leading scientists. "I was completely, ...

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 ...

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 every popular list of unsolved problems, there are scholars and students dreaming of -- and working towards -- solving the puzzles they contain. Many search for creative solutions, only to reach ...

A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labors in near-seclusion may have solved one of mathematics’ oldest and most abstruse problems, the Poincare Conjecture. Evidence has been mounting since ...

Dec. 1 -- Two years ago the Clay Mathematics Institute near Boston listed seven important questions in mathematics that have never been answered and offered a $1 million reward for the solution of any ...

In middle school, Abhay Basireddy realized he had a particular interest and aptitude in mathematics. “It had always been my favorite subject, but at that point, I started doing Math Counts and it felt ...