For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

After cracking the 'sum of cubes' puzzle for 42, mathematicians discover a new solution for 3. What do you do after solving the answer to life, the universe, and everything? If you're mathematicians ...

When you have an infinitely decreasing number does it ever hit a point where it is indistinguishable from the number it’s approaching? Does 0.999999999…, for instance, ever finally just become 1? A ...

Jennifer McLoud-Mann had almost come to believe that her last two years of work had been for naught. "It had gotten to the point, where we hadn't found anything," she said. "And I was starting to ...