At the 2024 Greater Bay Area Science Forum, Efim Zelmanov, a Fields Medalist and a chair professor from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), shared his insights in an ...

Many fields of mathematics germinated from the study of real world problems, before the underlying rules and concepts were identified. These rules and concepts were then defined as abstract ...

Mathematics competes with astronomy as our oldest science: Problems that ancient Greeks puzzled over are still being worked on today. Some ideas in math come from pure abstraction, but turn out to ...

The International Mathematical Union (IMU), which awards the Fields Medal, also says that it is pushing for better representation of women. The IMU has an executive committee that appoints other ...

As the world of big data expands, so does the need for talented mathematicians and statisticians. A degree in the mathematical sciences opens doors—you’ll have opportunities to solve real-world ...

This is a great honour for Alessio Figalli, a mathematics professor at ETH Zurich since 2016. The International Mathematical Union (external page IMU) awarded the Fields Medal to the Italian citizen ...

The focus at the Centre for Mathematics Münster (CMM) is on the interaction between researchers from different fields of mathematics. The aim is that reseachers work together to develop overarching ...

In 2021, Koh came across a paper that discussed how to grapple with chaotic orbits from the perspective of symplectic geometry, an abstract field of math that is generally far removed from messy ...

However, they lacked a stringent language and rigorous mathematical foundations to describe them. Von Neumann developed a whole mathematical language and methodology of quantum mechanics in very short ...

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots. By Siobhan Roberts The words “optimal” and “optimize ...