Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

A team of mathematicians has solved a problem first posed more than 40 years ago that has confounded modern mathematicians, until now. A team of mathematicians has solved a problem first posed more ...

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

Renowned mathematician Joel David Hamkins finds current AI systems unreliable for mathematical reasoning, citing their ...

Mathematics is the language of the universe, but it’s a language few of us speak well. Yet mathematicians can use this language to help people better understand the world, discover unexpected ...

In August 2016, Nature News published an article based on data from the 'Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP)'. The article revealed that over 65% of modern mathematicians are descended from just 24 ...

Mathematicians at Roskilde University and the University of Waterloo announced that, using the Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM), they have solved this staggering version of the traveling salesman ...

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. For upcoming profiles on famous ...

History is full of backstabbing rivalries: Edison and Tesla, Harding and Kerrigan, Tupac and Biggie. No less dramatic was a 16th-century conflict between Italian mathematicians Gerolamo Cardano, a ...

Two young mathematicians are illuminating a frontier in the study of rational solutions to polynomial equations: the cubics. According to one version of the story, Hippasus made this discovery at sea, ...

India has a rich ancient history of great achievements in mathematics which has been disseminated in the world and has led ...