During my time as an eager undergraduate mathematician, I’d often wonder what it would feel like to prove a truly new result and have my name immortalised in the mathematical history books. I thought ...

Catherine Scarlett responds to an article about US teenagers who claim to have proved the theorem using trigonometry While it is heartening to see enthusiastic mathematical inquiry in young people and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In this episode of My Favorite Theorem, Kevin ...