‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
[ad_1] One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time.Since...
A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture
[ad_1] as the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line. Now, Jared...
Mathematicians Settle the Erdős Coloring Conjecture
[ad_1] In the fall of 1972, Vance Faber was a new professor at the University of Colorado. When two influential...
A Landmark Math Proof Clears a Hurdle in the Top Erdős Conjecture
[ad_1] A pair of mathematicians has solved the first chunk of one of the most famous conjectures about the additive...