Chodosh is the winner of the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, which recognizes promising early-career researchers who ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem ...

A growing minority believes it’s a mistake to tie so many mathematical formulas to the famed 3.14... value. Another value, ...

Arnold’s work was in an area of mathematics that concerns all the different configurations a physical system like bouncing billiard balls or orbiting planets can take. These configurations are encoded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, ...

Last week, a 23-year-old amateur with no advanced mathematical training did something many mathematicians never manage in a ...