After more than 40 years in the United States, Qian Hong has left his endowed professorship at the University of Washington ...

On Sunday in Ghana, Mr. Logan won the World Scrabble Championship for the second time. In doing so, he beat Nigel Richards of New Zealand, the five-time world champ and a man opponents regard as the ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or ...

Mathematician Jennifer Taback is to receive one of the highest honors in her academic field. She has been named a 2026 Fellow ...

Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says. “Will there be a superhuman AI mathematician?” asked theoretical ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to John Hogan, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Bristol, about his research on the "Golfer's Curse" - when a ball looks like it's been sunk, but spins back ...

How did Danica McKellar go from starring in "The Wonder Years" at 13 to writing 12 math books? Here's what the actress had to ...

A charity and a communist group ask Grigori Perelman to donate prize to them. MOSCOW, March 23, 2009 -- A reclusive Russian mathematician who was recently awarded $1 million for solving a problem ...