It used to be that a mathematical proof meant absolute certainty. But today's proofs often are so long and complex that it's practically impossible for anyone to read one, let alone verify it. Thomas ...

There is a mathematician who has been sweeping up virtually every mathematics award from 2016 to 2017. Professor Maryna Viazovska, who was an ordinary postdoctoral researcher until 2015, instantly ...

The recent boom in mathematics bestsellers has contributed a great deal towards raising the public profile of the subject. But such books ignore a significant section of potential readers, namely ...

Your news feature “Does the proof stack up?” (Nature 424, 12; 200310.1038/424012a) — addressing the difficulties faced by mathematicians in verifying the computer-aided putative proof of Kepler's ...

Is it possible to deduce the shape of a drum from the sounds it makes? This is the kind of question that Iosif Polterovich, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de ...