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 ...

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathemat ...

The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication. ...

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 ...

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, ...

Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today.

Steven G. Krantz,, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, illuminates mathematicians' very human brilliance in his book, Mathematical Apocrypha Redux, his sequel to his ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The mathematician Richard Hamming said, “If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work.” In the ...

This episode traces the role of HBCUs and mentors in growing the community of Black mathematicians. The episode relates stories of prominent African American mathematicians who struggled through ...