George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

When Assistant Professor of Mathematics Selvi Kara was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, she started a math club with one of her colleagues to help middle school ...

Cameron Gordon, a mathematician known for his research on knots, was elected to the country’s most prestigious scientific organization. Cameron Gordon, a professor of mathematics at The University of ...

This month, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win one of the field’s most prestigious awards, the Abel Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ...

Meet a Mathematician (MEET) is a collection of video interviews with mathematicians from various career stages and diverse backgrounds. MEET goal is to create a consistent collection of video profiles ...

On March 20, American-Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands received the Abel Prize, celebrating lifetime achievement in mathematics. Langlands’ research demonstrated how concepts from geometry, ...

In high school, I dropped out of calculus with a failing grade. In college in New York’s Hudson Valley, I studied anthropology and film. After college, I took a job that interested me—at least until ...

Constantine Karatheodori is one of the greates mathematicians of the 20th century. He worked with many great minds including ...