Two breakthroughs in mathematics could reshape how researchers understand symmetries in nature and the behavior of complex ...

A top academic has returned to China as a professor at the new Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences.

We’ve mapped nearly all of Mars’ surface from orbit, yet we know less about Earth’s ocean floor — almost 75% remains unmapped in high resolution. This terrestrial blind spot is driving NJIT ...

An equally important blow was struck by an Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi in the 18th century. Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a ...

Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite ...

Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at the university ETH Zurich, studies optimal transport: the most efficient allocation of starting points to end points. The scope of investigation is wide ...

The fellowships are part of the Simons Foundation’s efforts to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science James P. McIntyre Professor of ...

"The best email I ever received was a few years ago and it was the parent of a teenager, and it just said he was losing his way and didn't think he could become a mathematician because he was a ...

Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford will stand in for Rachel Riley on Channel 4’s Countdown while she takes a short break to work on another project, it has been announced. Dr Crawford is well-known for his ...

China is vying with Japan and Britain to host the 2030 maths Olympics for the second time, after it first held the event in 2002, an initiative led by eminent mathematician Shing-Tung Yau.