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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Black holes are usually framed as the ultimate dead ends of the universe, but a new mathematical proposal suggests they might instead be raw material for building shortcuts through spacetime. In this ...

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 ...

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

Abraham Wald fled Europe just as Nazi persecution swallowed its greatest minds. Arriving in the United States with nothing ...