A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...

It’s the theorem every mathematician believes in — yet no one can prove it. For decades, the brightest minds have tried and ...

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The eugenics movement of the early 1900s ultimately went horribly wrong despite its noble aims. What can we learn from this movement's outcomes in order to avoid the repetition of these mistakes?

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for decades. Mathematicians from Australia and France have ...

DOUBLE 'MURDER'Cops name tragic children aged two & three who were found dead inside home as woman, 43, arrested over ‘murder’ POLICE have arrested two inmates aged 43 and 25 on suspicion of murder — ...

Abstract: The Erdos-Faber-Lovász conjecture (posed in 1972) states that the chromatic index of any linear hypergraph on $n$ vertices is at most n. Erdös considered ...

Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” ...