Steven G. Krantz,, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, illuminates mathematicians' very human brilliance in his book, Mathematical Apocrypha Redux, his sequel to his ...

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 ...

During her graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, Lisa Piccirillo solved a problem that had bedeviled mathematicians for five decades. Piccirillo first learned of the Conway Knot ...

The mathematician Richard Hamming said, “If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work.” In the math world, Hamming was known as a rebel. But unlike Jim Stark, ...

Nobel Laureate John Nash GS '50 sat in the fifth row of Taplin Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem 10 years ago, sat two rows closer. All told, more ...

An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous math problem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century. The Riemann hypothesis, first proposed by German ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The mathematician Richard Hamming said, “If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work.” In the ...