That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris.

Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that has puzzled the field for decades. By wiggling a needle around while spinning it, you can minimize the amount of space it moves through, ...

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely narrow needle, kept mathematicians ...

Mathematician Chen Min has left Purdue University’s maths department to join the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo as a ...