A 125-page proof posted to arXiv may represent a huge breakthrough in geometric measure theory. This problem has implications ...

A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set of possibilities for mathematics, from computer science to cryptography ...

Professors from NYU and the University of British Columbia have resolved the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions.

Mathematicians are the real programmers as the world of programming is ruled by mathematical ideas, said Suriya Priya Asaithambi, National University of Singapore- ISS, Singapore, while ...

On March 14 mathematicians everywhere will be enjoying a slice of pie as they recite the digits of math's most famous constant. Pi, defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and ...

Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis ...

Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...

Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems. By Kenneth Chang Masaki ...

Mathematicians have finally succeeded in unifying the laws of physics that govern the motions of particles at different scales. Their efforts resolve a question set by mathematician David Hilbert ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the ...

Kashiwara is known for building bridges across seemingly distant branches of mathematics. In particular, he developed algebraic tools to solve tough problems such as differential equations ...