Simon Singh's exploration of mathematical proof – in particular Pierre de Fermat's last theorem – remains an absolute ...

Mathematicians have proved a key building block of the Langlands programme, sometimes referred to as a “grand unified theory” of maths due to the deep links it proposes between seemingly distant ...

Dec. 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns without the use of proofs or modern ...

A Harvard scientist believes he's cracked the code proving there's a higher power at work, using a mind-bending scientific formula that's got social media in a philosophical spin. The Ivy League ...

Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. In 2012, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki claimed he had solved the abc conjecture ...

In 2007 a documentary chronicling the selection process and training regimen for the British team at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) aired on BBC to much acclaim. Unsurprisingly, ...