News from mathematicians

Math is for the most part an internal process, says David Bessis

I didn’t find math particularly exciting when I was in high school. What really blew me away was discovering how deeply mathematics is interwoven with the strangest physical phenomena

A geometry masterpiece: Yale prof solves part of math’s ‘Rosetta Stone’

This 180-year-old graffiti scribble was actually an equation that changed the history of mathematics

We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math

A group is a set, or collection of objects, together with an operation that takes in two objects and outputs a third

How do you prove something is true? Here’s how to do it

Take our quiz to find out what your mathematical style is

'Hidden Figures' of the space race receive Congress' highest honor at medal ceremony

Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder

The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators

Grad Students Find Inevitable Patterns in Big Sets of Numbers | Quanta Magazine

‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers