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 ...

Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles, working in the rarefied ...

Imagine a problem so fiendishly hard that one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century publicly mused that even alien civilisations ...

From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. This particular list focuses on ...

I. David Hilbert was 38 years old when he stepped up to address the Second International Congress of Mathematicians on the morning of Wednesday, August 8, 1900. The son of a judge in the East Prussian ...