Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in the world, but it doesn’t “exist” outside the minds of ...

Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in the world, but it doesn't exist outside the minds of ...

In reading last week's Advocate, I met with an earnest remonstrance against the neglect of mathematics among the undergraduates, coupled with an appeal to the instructors to make it more attractive; ...

Perhaps the happiest of Stanford’s new captives is Yale’s Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights ...

The first woman to be award the Fields Medal -- the Nobel Prize of math. Professor Maryam Mirzakhani is the recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics awarded every four years on ...