When most people think about math problems, we think back to algebra class, geometry, or for the real showoffs, trigonometry. For true mathematicians, however, things get much more complicated ...

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ... French mathematician Évariste Galois finally illustrated why this was such a problem—the underlying mathematical symmetry in the ...

Joseph John Kohn, professor of mathematics, emeritus, a 1956 Ph.D. alumnus and a leader in the field of several complex variables, died on Sept. 13. He was 91. Born in Prague in May 1932, Kohn ...

Grigory Perelman, the Russian who seems to have solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics, has declined one of the discipline's top awards. Dr Perelman was to have been presented with the ...