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Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the committee members didn't respect her work.
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How many holes does the human body have?You might think that the human body has many holes, but that number shrinks when you stop to consider what counts as a hole.
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AI is solving 'impossible' math problems. Can it best the world's top mathematicians?AI is making gains in solving pure math problems. Can it crack the hardest problems in mathematics?
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Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possibleA new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.
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Science history: Russian mathematician quietly publishes paper — and solves one of the most famous unsolved conjectures in mathematics — Nov. 11, 2002Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
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Mathematicians discover a completely new way to find prime numbersUsing a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also connecting two areas of math in an unexpected way
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'Alien's language' problem that stumped mathematicians for decades may finally be close to a solutionThe Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory, an infamous proof that has confounded mathematicians for over a decade, has been partially solved.
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When was math invented?Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus?
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Mathematicians devise new way to solve devilishly difficult algebra equationsMathematicians have devised a new way to solve higher-order polynomial equations, ushering in a 'dramatic revision of a basic chapter in algebra'.
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