A look at how mathematicians around the world study and attempt to solve long-standing problems that continue to challenge the field of mathematics.

Try to reach back into your brain to elementary math class and see if you can solve the problem plaguing social media users.

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David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

Connecticut lawmakers are weighing a statewide, bell-to-bell ban on student cellphones, and schools are split on whether it helps.

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A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...