Motivated by a proof without words for the sum of the alternating harmonic series, this article delves into some interesting questions regarding a series to which the usual convergence tests do not ...

We give analytical results pertaining to the distributions of zeros of a class of sums which involve complex powers of the distance to points in a two-dimensional square lattice and trigonometric ...

One of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics likely remains unsolved. At a hotly-anticipated talk at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum today, retired mathematician Michael Atiyah delivered what ...

One of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics may have been solved, retired mathematician Michael Atiyah is set to claim on Monday. In a talk at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, ...

A mathematician at Purdue University claims to have come up with a proof for the Riemann hypothesis, often called the greatest unsolved math problem, though the work has yet to be peer-reviewed. Louis ...