Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a genius!” they reply. Or ...

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago Faltings’s proof answered a question that had been open since the early ...

Twenty-one years ago this week, mathematicians released a list of the top seven unsolved problems in the field. Answering them would offer major new insights in fundamental mathematics and might even ...

While filming herself getting ready for work recently, TikTok user @gracie.ham reached deep into the ancient foundations of mathematics and found an absolute gem of a question: How could someone come ...

Global math archive: MIT and collaborators launched MathNet, the largest Olympiad-level problem collection, spanning 47 ...

Math exam questions should not try too hard to appear "realistic" by adding everyday-life stories, because students would ...