No cause of death was given. “Jim was an exceptional leader who did transformative work in mathematics and developed a world-leading investment company,” Simons Foundation President David ...

IT is only during the last fifty or sixty years that the history of mathematics has been systematically studied. In that time, however, the field has been gradually covered by an increasing number ...

and an emeritus professor in computer science and mathematics at the Free University of Berlin—accumulated his collection of ...

The aim of the project is to compile information about all the mathematicians of the world and to trace the intellectual history of mathematics. The MGP website aims to provide details of all ...

Robyn Arianrhod is a science writer and a mathematician affiliated with Monash University’s School of Mathematics, where she researches general relativity and history of science. She is the ...

If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all ...