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 ...

Heisuke Hironaka, an influential mathematician who received one of his profession's highest honors for devising an algorithm to handle the sharp edges and pointy peaks of geometry, died on March 18 at ...

Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today.

Talia Ringer is in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA. Read the paper: Olympiad-level formal mathematical ...

WORKING OUT how to most efficiently pack a crate full of oranges may seem like a juvenile pursuit for professional mathematicians. And yet the sphere-packing problem, as this pastime is properly known ...