La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...

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

A 125-page proof posted to arXiv may represent a huge breakthrough in geometric measure theory ... problem using lateral thinking. In an NYU statement, Zahl’s UBC colleague Pablo Shmerkin ...