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 ...

An apparently easy-looking math problem has left internet users scratching their heads. The elementary-grade problem looks simple enough to solve in seconds, but has tripped up the masses. The basic ...

The math you thought you would never use again from school is back to haunt you. X users are in an uproar over an equation that @BholanathDutta posted. It appears as a simple equation, but the comment ...