The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

A Penn State engineering student refined a century-old math problem into a simpler, more elegant form, making it easier to ...

That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris.

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson believe they can prove the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry — and are being encouraged to submit their work for ... discovery for a math problem that ...

Indian USA student Divya Tyagi at penn State University has cracked a 100 years old math problem , which will enable higher efficiency in wind turbines. Divya’s work has implications that reach ...