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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The first woman to be award the Fields Medal -- the Nobel Prize of math. Professor Maryam Mirzakhani is the recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics awarded every four years on ...

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 ...