Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...

Two pioneers of the theory of computation have won the 2021 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious honours in mathematics. Hungarian mathematician László Lovász and Israeli computer scientist ...

Park Jin-young, an assistant professor of mathematics at New York University, has emerged as a leading expert in probabilistic combinatorics, a branch of discrete mathematics, for her work in solving ...

Chinese-born mathematics professor Zhang Yitang, who has a reputation for solving perplexing problems in number theory, is set to reveal his latest work soon.

China has problems to solve before its mathematics research can rise above WWII levels, ... With an understanding that mathematics was the foundation of all modern sciences and technologies, ...