Modern math problems don’t tend to have the kind of answers that trip off the tongue. Perhaps it’s a brand-new proof that takes a few pages’ worth of words and diagrams to explain properly, or an ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

Adrian Moore continues his exploration of two and a half millennia of philosophical thought on infinity. Discover the brilliant but tortured German mathematician, Georg Cantor, who devised a way of ...

Tonan Kamata, center, and Ryuhei Uehara, right, of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and Jin Akiyama, a professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science, are seen in ...

A famous math problem that has vexed mathematicians for decades has met an elegant solution by Cornell University researchers. Graduate student Yash Lodha, working with Justin Moore, professor of ...

We study continuity properties of optimal solutions of parametrized semi-infinite programming problems. The involved constraints are formulated in a form of cone constraints and then a slightly ...