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

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, ...

Acclaimed Chinese-American mathematician Huaxin Lin has returned to China for a full-time research position in Shanghai after nearly four decades in the United States. The 69-year-old joined the ...

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 ...

Returning as carryover champ is Ben Zauzmer, an American maths whiz who penned the book Oscarmetrics: The Math Behind The ...

By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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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.