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A Japanese entrepreneur is offering to shell out $1 million (140 million yen) to anyone who can finally resolve a deadlock over a proof of a math brainteaser. Nobuo Kawakami, the founder of Dwango Co.

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A team of Italian mathematicians, including one who is also a neuroscientist from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Lisbon, Portugal, has shown that artificial vision machines can ...

A mathematician who developed what some consider the "grand unified theory of mathematics" has won one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics. Robert Langlands, an emeritus professor at the ...

In the words of Imre Leader, a Professor at the Cambridge University: "The fundamental kind of question Ramsey theory asks is: can one always find order in chaos? If so, how much? Just how large a ...

At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...