Two breakthroughs in mathematics could reshape how researchers understand symmetries in nature and the behavior of complex ...

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, ...

Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite ...

An equally important blow was struck by an Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi in the 18th century. Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a ...

The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication.

To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to ...

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Hamilton was recognised in his lifetime when elected a fellow of the American Academy and won the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his work on conical refraction. He was also active in the British ...

Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at the university ETH Zurich, studies optimal transport: the most efficient allocation of starting points to end points. The scope of investigation is wide ...