In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

In a career devoted to numbers, mathematician Victor Klee racked up a few of his own. The professor spent more than 50 years at the University of Washington, during which he mentored 36 doctoral ...

In 1967, Robert P. Langlands set out a road map to prove a “grand unified theory” that would tie together disparate areas of mathematics. The conjectures of Langlands, now 81 and an emeritus professor ...

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 ...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has named Yakov G. Sinai, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, as the winner of the Abel Prize for 2014. Mr. Sinai, who also holds an ...

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. ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

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Mathematics and theatrics combine in April in “Diving into Math with Emmy Noether,” a play about the pioneering and influential mathematician who is often referred to as the “mother of modern algebra.