The word “futurism” was coined by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in his famous 1909 manifesto. He later wrote another ...

In 1900, the great mathematician David Hilbert presented a list of 23 unsolved problems worth investigating in the new century. The list became a road map for the field, guiding mathematicians through ...

In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and delivered a speech that would echo through the next century. He outlined 10 — and ...

Hilbert’s 12th problem asked for novel analogues of the roots of unity, the building blocks for certain number systems. Now, over 100 years later, two mathematicians have produced them. Problems in ...

The 1930 Königsberg conference hosted two of the greatest minds in mathematics engaged in a profound struggle. The conference saw David Hilbert, largely regarded as the father of 20th-century ...

NEWS has reached Great Britain that Prof. David Hilbert, of Gottingen, died recently. He was born on January 23, 1862, and was a mathematician of tremendous power who ranged over a wide field and had ...