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This is incredibly important: On 27 January 2009, one of us — Gowers — used his blog to announce an unusual experiment. The Polymath Projec...

Maths is a famously lonely discipline - I should know, having spent three years of my life grappling with a single equation (the equation wo...

Suppose Jane is a well-known mathematician who announces she has proved a theorem. We probably will believe her, but she knows that she will...