These 10 most famous female mathematicians in the 21st century are working on research that will thoroughly change the way we observe not just mathematics, but the world itself.

The official occasion is the hundredth anniversary of a famous lecture given by the great mathematician David Hilbert at an international meeting in Paris in 1900.

Century-old math puzzle After 122 years, a team of mathematicians has finally solved the puzzle. They proved that no smaller solution exists.

He is regarded as the greatest mathematician of the 20th century – someone who transformed thinking about spaces and numbers by his work in the field of algebraic geometry.

Alexander Grothendieck, one of the most important mathematicians of the twentieth century, died at 86 on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Grothendieck's main mathematical contributions were to the field ...

10. Ingrid Daubechies Born in 1954, Ingrid Daubechies spent 16 years teaching mathematics at Princeton before moving to Duke. She was the first female president of International Mathematical Union.