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 ...

Editor's Note: We'd like to welcome you to a new guest column: "The Green Polymath," by Vinnie Mirchandani. Over the next few weeks, Vinnie will discuss how some of our most familiar enterprise ...

If one announcement summarizes the ambitions of crypto project Polymath, it might be Wednesday's acquisition of the domain Tokens.com. Updated Sep 13, 2021, 7:57 a.m. Published May 16, 2018, 1:45 p.m.

Polymath crypto is benefitting from a little Binance bump. Although its valuation hasn’t changed much, trading volume for this token has spiked a bit. And that’s likely because it was just added to ...

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 ...

On May 13, an obscure mathematician — one whose talents had gone so unrecognized that he had worked at a Subway restaurant to make ends meet — garnered worldwide attention and accolades from the ...

At the end of January 2009, Timothy Gowers embarked on what he later called “one of the most exciting six weeks of my mathematical life”. Inspired by the online citizen-science movement, Gowers, a ...

A maths problem previously tackled with the help of a computer, which produced a proof the size of Wikipedia, has now been cut down to size by a human. Although it is unlikely to have practical ...