Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

In 1986 Belgian mathematician Jean Bourgain posed a seemingly simple question that continued to puzzle researchers for decades. No matter how you deform a convex shape—consider shaping a ball of clay ...

A human has outkissed one of Google’s superpowered artificial intelligence systems. The achievement isn’t in the realm of ...

Ending a six-decade-old mathematical mystery with the help of computational methods, a trio of Chinese scientists have proven that manifolds of Kervaire invariant one do exist in dimension 126. The ...