The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new ...

President Obama’s 2014 budget request includes programs for research, development, and education in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. He has called for 100,000 new ...

Mathematics research typically requires few materials. To explore the secrets of prime numbers, investigate unimaginable ...

A physicist has won the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious accolades in mathematics. And a mathematician, Maxim Kontsevich, has won the new Breakthrough Prizes in both mathematics and physics.

Fields Medal, known as math's Nobel Prize, stolen from winner's briefcase 00:44. One of the winners of the award known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics had his gold medal stolen minutes after it ...

Okounkov, a professor of mathematics at Princeton since 2002, has been lauded for his ability to find connections between seemingly unrelated fields, such as algebraic geometry in mathematics and ...

Almost 2,000 years later, Isaac Newton wanted to understand Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and attempted to find a rigorous way of thinking about infinitesimal change. This impulse (along with ...

A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.

It also resulted in a migration of Soviet scholars, which greatly affected the field of mathematics in the United States, according to two professors who have co-authored a paper called “The Collapse ...

A straightforward math tweak could bring tachyon fields into line with the rest of physics. Tachyons are faster-than-light particles, and tachyon fields are special cases of quantum field. The ...