Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis ...
If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua ...
Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) is on every list of great mathematicians. However, he had a day job as a judge in Richelieu’s France and his great theorems were scribbled, with little or no proof, in the ...