Harvard mathematics professor Lauren K. Williams just won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." She's still focused on ...

Giving birth to a conjecture — a proposition that is suspected to be true, but needs definitive proof — can feel to a mathematician like a moment of divine inspiration. Mathematical conjectures are ...

Born in 1777 in Germany, a young boy from a poor family would grow up to be known as the “Prince of Mathematics.” From the moment he corrected his father’s calculations at age three, Carl Friedrich ...

He couldn’t see the equations — but he could solve what others couldn’t even begin. This is the story of how blindness never ...