After an eight-year struggle, embattled Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has finally received some validation. His 600-page proof of the abc conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in ...

“He proved a theorem about Carmichael numbers in a way that other mathematicians hadn't. It's a truly wonderful piece of work.” Daniel Larsen, a freshman at MIT, is making headlines for solving a ...

Imagine you're walking down a path, minding your own business, when suddenly you find yourself trapped in a net thrown on you by an evil troll. He poses a challenge to you: he will give you a sequence ...