The beginnings of a conjecture It’s a peculiar truth of mathematics that the easier a problem looks on paper, the harder it often turns out to be. Take Fermat’s Last Theorem, for example ...

When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old ...

The Collatz Conjecture is a deceptively simple math problem. It has only two rules. First, pick any number. If it's even, divide it by two. If it's odd, multiply it by three and add one. This will ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology doctoral student was part of a team of researchers that settled a 90-year-old math problem called Keller’s conjecture. David Narváez, who studies computing ...

A Japanese mathematician says he’s proved a famous unsolved conjecture. The problem is, nobody can understand the solution he’s put forth.

Summer Haag, Clyde Kertzer, James Rickards and Katherine E. Stange disprove the Local-Global Conjecture for Apollonian circle packings in a summer research project.

The simple math hid a thorny problem, however, and no one has ever proved the Collatz conjecture. Recently, a mathematician at the University of Hamburg has published a proof of the conjecture.