George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform.

Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polynomials were first conceived by the Babylonians around 1800 BCE. Babylonians first conceived of two-degree polynomials around ...