On this note, the American Mathematical Society, which is largely focused on mathematical research, fared less favorably than its former partner, which is largely focused on mathematical teaching. At ...

American mathematician John Milnor was awarded the Abel Prize in mathematics Wednesday. Among his many achievements, Milnor proved the existence of exotic seven-dimensional spheres. Robert Siegel ...

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Dr. Williams is a board member of the Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, and he is the creator of, and maintains, the world famous web site Mathematicians of the ...

Laurent Schwartz won the Fields Medal in mathematics and was one of the greatest mathematicians of his time. But when he was in school he was one of the slowest in his class. In his autobiography, A ...

Black mathematicians emerged from segregation and prejudice to leadership in education and research. A legacy of segregation and prejudice lies behind stories of African American mathematicians ...

In the late 1970s American mathematician Robert F. Riley realized the complement of the figure-eight knot—this flexible topological object—is secretly an impossibly hard geometric diamond.

Study abroad historically has catered to the liberal arts undergrad, immersed in art and history and language, not graduate students in mathematics. But that's not the way it should be, according to ...

Mathematicians have always been proud to dwell in the realm of abstract ideas, from tiling 7D space to unearthing new twin primes. With our heads mostly in the clouds, we were able to play freely ...

On February 22 the American Mathematical Society’s (AMS’s) president Ruth Charney stated that it “has no plans to send representatives to a meeting in St. Petersburg.