That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris. Legendary mathematician David Hilbert presented 10 unsolved problems as ambitious ...

Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) Archimedes was possibly the greatest mathematician of all time. He's best known for his contributions to our early understanding of physics by figuring out how levers ...

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The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

Researchers have found an answer to a centuries-old floral mystery, using a mathematical model to explain how striped tulips ...

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 ...

Mathematicians have finally succeeded in unifying the laws of physics that govern the motions of particles at different scales. Their efforts resolve a question set by mathematician David Hilbert ...

Mathematicians are the real programmers as the world of programming is ruled by mathematical ideas, said Suriya Priya Asaithambi, National University of Singapore- ISS, Singapore, while ...