I take issue with the celebration of Paul Erdős’ 100 th birthday (he was born 26 March 2013). Not the celebration itself, but the number. Why 100? The number 100 was chosen, of course, because 10 is ...

A pair of mathematicians has solved the first chunk of one of the most famous conjectures about the additive properties of whole numbers. Proposed more than 60 years ago by the legendary Hungarian ...

Today would’ve been the 100th birthday of the Hungary-born mathematician who published so many papers--and many with such great impact--that a playful measure of one’s academic affiliation with him ...