Mathematics is a "science which requires a great amount of imagination", said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya ...

Brilliant figures such as Sergey Nikitovich Mergelyan (1928-2008) defined the 20th century as an era for extraordinary ...

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

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

This month, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win one of the field’s most prestigious awards, the Abel Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ...

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

Math conferences don’t usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta. Su, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College in California and the outgoing president of the ...

It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 ...

Po-Shen Loh never expected the pope to be part of the debate over artificial intelligence. But when Pope Leo XIV began urging ...

It might have escaped lay people at the time, but for some observers the ascension of Leo XIV as head of the Catholic Church this year was a reminder that the last time a Pope Leo sat in St. Peter’s ...