Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was always bad at math.” I suppress the response, “You are forgiven, my child.” ...

Alexander Grothendieck was among the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, until he withdrew from the world. Neuroscience may finally shed light on why epoch-changing minds make drastic ...

Einstein wasn’t the only eminent scientist to describe Noether as the greatest woman mathematician who ever lived - just the most well-known. This isn’t surprising, considering she provided the ...