Shing-Tung Yau, Member of the American Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign academician of the ...

There are people whose fate, no matter how it twists and turns, ultimately brings them home. Years may take them far away — ...

Many rural school districts around the United States are having a hard time making up for federal grant money that's been cut ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Two India-born mathematicians in the US and Canada are among the 106 recipients of the prestigious Padma Awards announced on the eve of Republic Day. Indian American S.R. Srinivasa ...

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into knots. But for mathematicians, it’s a serious (and endlessly fascinating) ...

In northern Beijing, a calm and focused academic world is taking shape. On a campus built on what used to be a cement factory, researchers from many countries meet every day to discuss maths, work on ...

Even as the bombs fall in Ukraine, precisely following trajectories defined by equations, Ukrainian and Russian mathematicians, among others, gather in sunlit rooms beside tranquil Yanqi Lake in an ...

It might have escaped lay people at the time, but for some observers the ascension of Leo XIV as head of the Catholic Church this year was a reminder that the last time a Pope Leo sat in St. Peter’s ...

Imagine spinning a top and then letting it come to rest. Is there a way for you to spin the top again so it ends up in the exact position it started, as if you had never spun it at all? Surprisingly, ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

The premise of Marcus du Sautoy’s Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity is that mathematics and creativitiy spring from the same well — structure. Individual numbers exist without human help.

British students will be able to spend a year studying at EU universities without paying extra fees, and vice versa for ...