Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician, solved one of the world's most complicated math problems several years ago. The Poincare Conjecture was the first of the seven Millennium Prize Problems to ...

A buzz is building that one of mathematics' greatest unsolved problems may have fallen. Blogs and online discussion groups are spreading news of a paper posted to an online preprint server on 26 ...

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 ...

IT is an icon of mathematics that is also appreciated in wider culture, but what is the actual shape of a Möbius strip, the one-sided surface famously drawn by the mathematical artist M. C. Escher?

One of the most classic algorithmic problems deals with calculating the shortest path between two points. A more complicated variant of the problem is when the route traverses a changing network - ...

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(NEWSER) – UCLA Professor Terence Tao, one of the world's top mathematicians, has just solved a famous problem dating back to the 1930s — and he says it was a comment on his blog earlier this year ...

IT is an icon of mathematics that is also appreciated in wider culture, but what is the actual shape of a Möbius strip, the one-sided surface famously drawn by the mathematical artist M. C. Escher?