Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, the famous Fields Medalist and Abel Prize winner, claims to have solved the Riemann hypothesis. If ...

An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous math problem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century. The Riemann hypothesis, first proposed by German ...

A top mathematician showed that he solved a 160-year-old math problem at a lecture held in Germany on Monday. Michael Atiyah, who has already won two of the biggest prizes in mathematics, the Fields ...

Did a team of mathematicians just take a big step toward answering a 160-year-old, million-dollar question in mathematics? Maybe. The crew did solve a number of other, smaller questions in a field ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An unsolved 160-year-old math problem may finally have a solution — but critics are wary. Michael ...