Articles by

Jordana Cepelewicz

‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture

One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the...

A Teenager Solved a Stubborn Prime Number ‘Look-Alike’ Riddle

Mathematicians wanted to better understand these numbers that so closely resemble the most fundamental objects in number...

A New Computer Proof ‘Blows Up’ Centuries-Old Fluid Equations

For centuries, mathematicians have sought to understand and model the motion of fluids. The equations that describe...

A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture

as the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line....