Among the most creative and original mathematical thinkers – explanations of her work are virtually incomprehensible to us mortals, who communicate in words rather than symbols – Amalie “Emmy” Noether ...

Prime numbers, the "atoms of arithmetic," have captivated mathematicians for centuries. These numbers, divisible only by themselves and one, appear deceptively random yet hide intricate patterns.

Many brilliant minds have shaped the world of mathematics, but one name stands out above all: Archimedes of Syracuse. Known ...

André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, respectively. Konrad Jacobs (right) and Anonymous (left) via Wikimedia Commons, ...

Israel Gelfand, 96, a Russian mathematician whose research laid the mathematical framework for the imaging abilities of MRI and CT scanners and who did crucial work in a host of more esoteric fields, ...

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 ...

Tao was asked about the impact of AI on the field of math, because he’d recently posted some scathing comments about OpenAI’s latest and supposedly greatest GPT o1 model. Touted as the first model ...

Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, ...

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