Imagine you're walking down a path, minding your own business, when suddenly you find yourself trapped in a net thrown on you by an evil troll. He poses a challenge to you: he will give you a sequence ...

On his way to winning a Fields Medal, James Maynard has cut a path through simple-sounding questions about prime numbers that have stumped mathematicians for centuries. Number theorists, however, ...

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One of the first collaborations Xinyi Yuan and Wei Zhang ever undertook was a trip to the Social Security office. It was the fall of 2004 and the two of them were promising young graduate students in ...