David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

Every time you pay online, your data is protected by a maths problem nobody has proved is unbreakable. Here is what that means, and why the world is already preparing for the worst.

Let’s keep things simple – this is basic math. Nothing scary. Just everyday calculations, a bit of geometry, some number patterns, and the kind of stuff you definitely learned in school at some point.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI tools helped solve around 100 extant problems left behind by one of the 20th century’s greatest mathematicians. Hungarian Paul ...

New York City’s rent-regulated housing system is approaching a breaking point, not because of a single policy, but because of a compounding mismatch between political decisions, economic reality and ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

The seven Millennium Prize Problems represent some of the hardest unsolved questions in mathematics, including one famously solved by Grigory Perelman, who refused the million-dollar reward. Donald ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The conventional wisdom holds that entrepreneurs should identify unsolved problems and create novel solutions. But that approach misses where the real leverage exists right now. Established industries ...

James Sullivan of JPMorgan backs a ‘continuation trade’, favors Korea’s shipbuilding and memory stocks, and says tariff effects are manageable. He also warns ¥165 on the yen could hit Japanese ...

An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive. In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s ...

A major global study suggests that a hidden mismatch between two common blood tests could quietly signal serious trouble ahead. When results from creatinine and cystatin C—two markers used to assess ...