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Mathematician Who Bridged Algebra and the Quantum World Wins 2025 Abel Prize
This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, prolific Japanese mathematician ...
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Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you’ve never heard of
In offering similarly fine words of praise, another contemporary mathematician, Jean-Etienne Montucla, also revealed some of the mathematical sexism that persists down to the present day. He wrote: ...
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The Archimedes Palimpsest
The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...
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The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators
Nicolas Bourbaki: The greatest mathematician who never was Emmy Noether faced sexism and Nazism – over 100 years later her contributions to ring theory still influence modern math ...
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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 ...