To fully grasp and appreciate the subject, we need to look at the famous mathematicians who shaped math as we know it today, paving the way for modern engineering, technology, astronomy ...

For those who have wrestled a bulky couch around a tight corner and lamented, “Will this even fit?” mathematicians have heard your pleas. Geometry’s “moving sofa problem a ...

University of Chicago Mathematics Graduate Students Julia Bower, Abba Newton, and Frances Baker in 1933. Gift of Julia Bower. (2006.3037.02) During the last third of the nineteenth century American ...

During the lunch hour, the mathematician Roger Apéry would present a proof that one of the most famous numbers in mathematics — “zeta of 3,” or ζ(3), as mathematicians write it — could not be ...