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 ...

Peter Badge / Typos1 / The Abel Prize. This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki ...

Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis ...

Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems.

Mathematician Dr. Steven Strogatz breaks down the history of the math concept and brings it full circle to recent science.

To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to ...

That's because the date written numerically as 3/14 matches the first three digits of the never-ending number: 3.14 The unique holiday is one that is discussed by math teachers in schools across ...

A general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality. Greenland lawmakers form a new government on the eve of Vance ...

The imaginary number i depicts a number that somehow when ... Euler’s 1740 formula. With decent algebra skills, you can manipulate Euler’s formula to see that most of the standard ...