It is rare to read about “spectacular progress” or a “once-in-a-century” result in mathematics. That’s for good reason: if a problem has not had a solution for many years, then completely new ...

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Mathematician Per Enflo, who solved a huge chunk of the 'invariant subspaces problem' decades ago, may have just finished his work. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Princeton mathemagician, who died in April, left an engaging legacy of numerical gamesmanship. Credit...John Horton Conway Supported by By Siobhan Roberts When John Horton Conway, the Princeton ...