How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

The transcript explores Goldbach’s conjecture, the simple-looking claim that every even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes. It follows the problem from Euler and Goldbach to ...

Every so often it's good to exercise your brain with a math problem or two that forces you to recall principles you learned decades prior. As elementary as it might feel, you'd be surprised how easy ...