In a career devoted to numbers, mathematician Victor Klee racked up a few of his own. The professor spent more than 50 years at the University of Washington, during which he mentored 36 doctoral ...

From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. This particular list focuses on ...

In 1967, Robert P. Langlands set out a road map to prove a “grand unified theory” that would tie together disparate areas of mathematics. The conjectures of Langlands, now 81 and an emeritus professor ...

Born in Paris in 1976, Nalini Anantharaman is a leading French mathematician known for her pioneering work in quantum chaos and spectral geometry. A professor at the Collège de France, she has ...

Mathematics and theatrics combine in April in “Diving into Math with Emmy Noether,” a play about the pioneering and influential mathematician who is often referred to as the “mother of modern algebra.