Mathematics continues to evolve rapidly and shapes everything from artificial intelligence to climate modelling. Many modern mathematicians have gained global recognition for expanding theoretical ...

When Noelle Sawyer, a Bahamian mathematician at Southwestern University, came to the U.S. for college, she was taken aback. During the first two years of her undergraduate program, Sawyer, whose ...

In August 2016, Nature News published an article based on data from the 'Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP)'. The article revealed that over 65% of modern mathematicians are descended from just 24 ...

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Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...