Mathematician Chandrashekhar Khare's memoir, "Chasing (a) Conjecture," explores the decade-long pursuit of proving a significant conjecture in number theory. Khare, who chairs the mathematics department at UCLA, describes the process as a blend of creative intuition and rigorous logic, likening it to a musician's practice. He explains that a conjecture is an educated guess, but proof is the ultimate validation in mathematics, requiring deep immersion and analytical rigor to uncover insights.