REPORTER: THE LATE GLORIA FORD GILMER’S PASSION FOR MATH STARTED AT AN EARLY AGE. GROWING UP IN BALTIMORE, SHE SPENT MANY AFTERNOONS AND WEEKENDS WORKING AT HER DAD’S CORNER STORE. SHE SHARED THOSE ...

India has a rich ancient history of great achievements in mathematics which has been disseminated in the world and has led ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Stanford mathematician Maryam Marzakhani has just won the Fields Prize, often called the Nobel Prize in mathematics. The first woman to win the prize, ...

Ken Ono, one of the most prominent figures in modern number theory, has taken leave from the University of Virginia to join ...

Avi Wigderson is the first recipient of both a Turing Award and an Abel Prize, math's top honor. Andrea Kane / Institute for Advanced Study The 2023 Turing Award—the computing world’s Nobel Prize ...

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for decades. A Rutgers ...

Mathematics is a fundamental building block in modern-day society. It is used in the development of infrastructure, technology and business. In order to maintain a strong and thriving environment to ...

Wei Ho, the first director of the Women and Mathematics program at the Institute for Advanced Study, combines algebra and geometry in her work on an ancient class of curves. Like many people who would ...