Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

On a cold day in November, a man living quietly in Russia posted a paper to a public server. Published by "Grisha Perelman" and titled "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric ...