The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution ...

A powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has long been imperiled by certain ...

Nigerian astrophysicist Olamilekan Ogunrinde, reacting to Harvard's Dr. Willie Soon, says mathematics falls short in proving ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true.