One example is the use of computers by Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer to guess what is now known as the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the Clay math millennium problems.

The Collatz Conjecture is a deceptively simple math problem. It has only two rules. First, pick any number. If it's even, divide it by two. If it's odd, multiply it by three and add one. This will ...

The simple math hid a thorny problem, however, and no one has ever proved the Collatz conjecture. Recently, a mathematician at the University of Hamburg has published a proof of the conjecture.

This makes it very improbable that a counter-example to the conjecture exists, but the full problem remains open. Mathematical prodigy ...

When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old ...

The beginnings of a conjecture It’s a peculiar truth of mathematics that the easier a problem looks on paper, the harder it often turns out to be. Take Fermat’s Last Theorem, for example ...

Caroline Klivans, senior lecturer in applied mathematics and computer science, achieved every student’s dream and proved her former advisor wrong. The Partitionability Conjecture was postulated by ...