This is where Emmy Noether, a groundbreaking German mathematician, comes into the picture. She found a breathtakingly simple ...

The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication. ...

Michael Atiyah, a British mathematician who united mathematics and physics during the 1960s in a way not seen since the days of Isaac Newton, died Friday. He was 89. The Royal Society in London, of ...

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Archimedes, a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician and physicist, emphasized the importance of timing and awareness in ...

“For me, mathematics exists in the space between us,” Emmy Murphy wrote in accepting the 2020 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize. That space, for her, is a realm of art, perhaps even more than science.

Dr. Gladys West, a pioneering mathematician whose work in satellite geodesy was crucial for modern GPS accuracy, has passed away at 95. For decades, her vital contributions to modeling Earth's shape ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...