Global optimisation of sum of ratios problems represents a formidable challenge in contemporary applied mathematics and operations research. Such problems involve objective functions that are ...

Given that humans have been studying numbers for thousands of years, you might think we know everything about the number 3. But mathematicians recently discovered something new about 3: a third way to ...

A number theorist with programming prowess has found a solution to 33 = x³ + y³ + z³, a much-studied equation that went unsolved for 64 years. Now, Andrew Booker, a mathematician at the University of ...