Ever since Archimedes, mathematicians have been fascinated by equations that involve a difference between squares. Now two mathematicians have proven how often these equations have solutions, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...

The study of differential operators within the framework of Lie groups offers a profound gateway into understanding symmetry, geometry and representation theory. At its core, this area investigates ...

Supercharacter theory offers a tractable refinement of classical character theory by consolidating characters and conjugacy classes into supercharacters and superclasses. Initially conceptualised to ...

The brand-new Number Theory Research Group at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki is seeking 1-2 doctoral researchers to join a research project on analytic ...

In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the mathematical realm known as group theory. At first her goals were ...