From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. This particular list focuses on ...

From ancient geometers to modern theorists, mathematics has been shaped by a rare breed of thinkers who bent the rules of logic and imagination to reveal the hidden order of the universe. Debates over ...

Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical ...

In 1913, a letter arrived for Godfrey Harold Hardy, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge in England. The sender was ...

Sometimes work in one discipline of pure mathematics has a completely unexpected payoff in another. Some of the famous mathematician Pierre de Fermat’s (1601–1665) work in number theory bears this out ...

Editorial: OpenAI claims its agents have solved the Navier-Stokes problem. But questions remain about how useful and independent its work really is ...

Mathematicians have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a needle moving in multiple directions. The Kakeya conjecture was ...

Mathematical proofs, by their nature, are often very complex, and ascertaining whether they are, in fact, correct requires painstaking efforts by experts. A case in point is what happened on March 28, ...