A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture described as a “holy grail of additive combinatorics.” Within a month, a loose collaboration verified it ...

Mathematics has long been seen as a subject of formulas, equations, and abstract concepts that exist only on the pages of textbooks. For many students, this abstraction creates a disconnect ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...