Mahan Maharaj, born Mahan Mitra, has carved a rare path as both a leading mathematician and a monk of the Ramakrishna Order.

The Archimedes Palimpsest, a 10th century collection of the Greek mathematician’s treatises, changed hands many time—some ...

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the educational trajectories and intellectual development of eight influential Muslim mathematicians, four from the Islamic Golden Age and four from the modern era, ...

Mathematicians just made a big leap forward on one of the field’s all-time favorite problems. Curves—squiggly lines through space, such as a comet’s trajectory or a stock market trend—are some of math ...

The San Antonio International Airport opened the art exhibit “Reach for the Stars: African American Pioneers in Aviation” on Feb. 9. The exhibit, situated on a back wall in Terminal A near the ...

As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond. Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated ...

Gladys West, the mathematician and technologist whose work was key to the creation of the Global Positioning System (GPS), has died at the age of 95. She passed away on Saturday, January 17. West was ...

Takashi Ono, widely influential number theorist and professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, died in Florida on Jan. 11.

Nearly 200 years ago, the physicists Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes put the finishing touches on a set of equations that describe how fluids swirl. And for nearly 200 years, the ...