Explore 9 world-famous modern mathematicians, including Terence Tao, C.P. Ramanujam, and more. Learn their key contributions, areas of work and why they matter today. Mathematics continues to evolve ...

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 ...

For Wiles’s proof, you have to leave the algebra you know from school and enter more branched mathematical areas. In fact, ...

These 10 most famous female mathematicians in the 21st century are working on research that will thoroughly change the way we observe not just mathematics, but the world itself. STEM stands for ...

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. This particular list focuses on ...

Take an outline map of the lower 48 U.S. states and four crayons. Can you shade in the map so that every state is a different color than each of its neighbors, without resorting to a fifth color? This ...

Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles, working in the rarefied ...

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Steven G. Krantz,, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, illuminates mathematicians' very human brilliance in his book, Mathematical Apocrypha Redux, his sequel to his ...

This page provides an overview of the remarkable work of Scott W. Williams, PhD, Emeritus Professor, UB Mathematics. Dr. Williams joined our faculty in 1971, as Assistant Professor of Mathematics. In ...

Cédric Villani’s arrival, one afternoon last May, at a small café off the Champs-Élysées drew glances from a good fraction of the late-lunch crowd. His shoulder-length hair was parted almost ...