Fields Medalist Ngo Bao Chau said he decided to leave the U.S. for Hong Kong after 15 years because of a worsening academic climate in America and his ambition to help make Asia a global hub for ...

Artificial intelligence is a game changer across many fields these days and mathematics is no exception. Yet, the rapid acceleration of its ability to solve some of arithmetic’s most challenging ...

Van Vleck’s largest lecture hall was filled to the brim for popular YouTuber Grant Sanderon’s talk on high-dimensional spheres.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau, the only Vietnamese to have won the Fields Medal, says he wants to help transform Asia into the world's next great center of mathematics and science, describing the continent ...

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the award ...

A mathematician who developed formulas to make random processes more predictable and helped to solve an iconic model of complex phenomena has won the 2024 Abel Prize, one of the field’s most coveted ...

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.