Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.

By solving part of the Langlands program, a mathematical proof that was long thought to be unachievable, Dennis Gaitsgory ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring scientists driving remarkable discoveries in gene editing, human diseases, the fundamental ...

Using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics, the team has derived a general equation for any number of tangent ...

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely narrow needle, kept mathematicians ...

Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...

From undergraduate study to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty research, women within the Mellon College of Science’s Department of Mathematical Sciences are among those continuing the tradition of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true.

Pure mathematics uses mathematics to explore abstract ideas, mathematics that does not necessarily describe a real physical system. This can include developing the fundamental tools used by ...

This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, prolific Japanese mathematician ...

Authors Karol Markowicz and Bethany Mandel believe Amazon’s since-deleted, artificial intelligence-generated summary of their ...