After more than 40 years in the United States, Qian Hong has left his endowed professorship at the University of Washington ...
If you want to know when mathematicians are about to have a breakthrough, you don’t need to look inside their heads. Just ...
Mathematician Jennifer Taback is to receive one of the highest honors in her academic field. She has been named a 2026 Fellow ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.
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 ...
Like everyone else I know, when I go to the beach I think mathematics. Archimedes, my favorite mathematician, did too—his perhaps best-known work is the “Sand Reckoner,” wherein he counts the grains ...