In the early 1930s, the renowned Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős set forth a puzzle. Erdős offered $500 to anyone who could crack it. Called the Erdős discrepancy problem, a puzzle that surmised ...

President Park Hyung-ju of Ajou University lectures on the mathematicians' Polymath Project at Polymath Day, held at Ajou University on August 3. -Courtesy of Donga Math- “Today's event is a very ...

Solving difficult problems requires luck. With many people participating, the chances of getting lucky increase. When people from various fields come together, they can come up with new ideas that ...

As gaming platforms like Roblox and Minecraft continue to grow in popularity among young children, and with platforms like YouTube consuming hours of their daily screen time, edtech companies face ...

Late last January, University of Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers decided to run a little experiment. Was it possible, he wondered, for a large number of mathematicians to collaborate openly on the ...

While these properties may a priori seem different, in fact they turn out to be equivalent. The nontrivial implication amounts to saying that there does not exist a non-abelian group with a "norm". We ...