Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical ...

As the U.S. looks toward the 2018 midterm elections, it's worth noting that hundreds of scientists and other STEM professionals have decided to run for office. As someone with a math background, I ...

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Mathematics continues to evolve rapidly and shapes everything from artificial intelligence to climate modelling. Many modern ...

Life in the real world is complicated. It’s much simpler on the computer. As the Game of Life begins, the screen is filled with a vast latticework of squares, only a few of them filled in. The magic ...

Scott Simon talks with math guy Keith Devlin about the work of Grigori Perelman. Perelman is a mathematician at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg, Russia, who may have solved a ...

THIS little volume—one of a series devoted to the history of science—gives, in a very readable manner, an interesting narrative of some of the greatest representative mathematicians from the early ...