Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem
Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, ...
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Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you’ve never heard of
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered a ...
Leading thinkers to gather to honour Ireland’s greatest mathematician William Rowan Hamilton
Hamilton was recognised in his lifetime when elected a fellow of the American Academy and won the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his work on conical refraction. He was also active in the British ...
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Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you’ve never heard of
another contemporary mathematician, Jean-Etienne Montucla, also revealed some of the mathematical sexism that persists down to the present day. He wrote: “We cannot but behold with the greatest ...