Andrew Wiles devoted much of his entire career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, the world's most famous mathematical problem. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he announced a proof of ...

A volunteer at their former school, New Orleans’ St. Mary’s Academy, encouraged them to submit their work on the famous ...

These two teenage math stars have developed five new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem ... creating entirely new ways to ...

In June 1978, the organizers of a large mathematics conference in Marseille, France, announced a last-minute addition to the program. During the lunch hour, the mathematician Roger Apéry would present ...