An American mathematician has cracked part of a problem that had remained unsolved for 64 years. Andrew Booker, Reader of Pure Mathematics at the University of Bristol in the U.K., worked out how to ...

For decades, a math puzzle has stumped the smartest mathematicians in the world. x 3 +y 3 +z 3 =k, with k being all the numbers from one to 100, is a Diophantine equation that's sometimes known as ...

In Douglas Adams' sci-fi series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a pair of programmers task the galaxy's largest supercomputer with answering the ultimate question of the meaning of life, the ...