Understanding the famously complex Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory could solve mathematics' greatest problems.

Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...

Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's the ist of top 10 Indian Mathematicians. Mathematics Day: Top 9 Famous Indian Mathematicians. 22 Dec, 2023. Joy Pillai. Narendra Karmarkar: Known for his Karmarkar's algorithm.

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 ...

Mathematicians have long known that there are many kinds of infinities (technically, there are an infinity of them). Mathematicians revealed two new kinds of infinity—called exacting and ultra- ...