Abraham de Moivre, a prominent figure in French mathematics, is best known for his contributions to probability theory. An ...

The doorbell rings, and you’re surprised to find your colleague on the stoop. He’s slight, elderly, buzzing from amphetamines, unkempt and uninvited. He shoulders past you into your living room, a ...

Introduction to Ramanujan's Early Life In late January 1913, G.H. Hardy received a peculiar letter at Trinity College, filled ...

Emmy Noether was praised by Einstein for her work in mathematical physics. Like Einstein, she fled Nazi Germany for the U.S.. A play about her life, "Diving into Math with Emmy Noether," will be ...

I come to you with something a little different for my latest maths column – a plea to Hollywood to make a comedy biopic about one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Paul Erdős. Why is Erdős ...

The endearing tale of mathematician and Polish immigrant Stan Ulam, who immigrated to the United States in the 1930s and struggled through the devastating loss of friends and family while working on ...

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.

Ernst Specker is emeritus professor of mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, or ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, and just recently celebrated his ...