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 ...
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 ...
Mathematics Professor Luis Caffarelli of The University of Texas at Austin received the 2009 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement yesterday from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The ...
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...
Joseph John Kohn, professor of mathematics, emeritus, a 1956 Ph.D. alumnus and a leader in the field of several complex variables, died on Sept. 13. He was 91. Born in Prague in May 1932, Kohn ...
Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...
In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...