Every pure mathematician has experienced that awkward moment when asked, “So what’s your research good for?” There are standard responses: a proud “Nothing!”; an explanation that mathematical research ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 ...

Ukrainian professor Maryna Viazovska received top mathematics prize Fields Medal alongside three others - Copyright AFP Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS Ukrainian professor ...

Elon Lindenstrauss, a Princeton professor of mathematics, has received one of this year's Fields Medals, widely considered to be the math world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. "One of the best parts ...

The day after he received the Fields Medal for Mathematics, equivalent to the Nobel prize in the subject, Manjul Bhargava’s Inbox was flooded with more than 1000 emails, he told News India Times. In ...

Viazovska, a 37-year-old Kyiv-born math professor, received the prestigious award alongside three other winners at a ceremony in Helsinki. Ukraine's Maryna Viazovska paid tribute to those suffering in ...

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics—and vice versa. In 1912, Albert Einstein, then a 33-year-old theoretical physicist at the Eidgenössische Technische ...