Two pioneers of the theory of computation have won the 2021 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious honours in mathematics. Hungarian mathematician Laszlo Lovasz and Israeli computer scientist Avi Wigderson will share the prize, worth 7.5 million Norwegian kroner (US$886,000)...

Twenty-one years ago this week, mathematicians released a list of the top seven unsolved problems in the field. Answering them would offer major new insights in fundamental mathematics and might even have real-world consequences...

Even as mathematicians and computer scientists proved big results in computational complexity, number theory and geometry, computers proved themselves increasingly indispensable in mathematics...

At 21, Ashwin Sah has produced a body of work that senior mathematicians say is nearly unprecedented for a college student...

In 2019, math seemed to have many mainstream moments and that's not including the viral problems that made us want to rip our hair out. This year saw a steady stream of answers (or at least partial answers) to tough questions that had puzzled mathematicians for decades...

In November 2016, Kamuela Yong woke up to find that Donald Trump had lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College. In between his 45-minute commute to work, the University of University of Hawai-West Oahu associate professor developed an example to explain the outcome to his mathematics students...

This column comes with a warning: Do not try to solve this math problem. You will be tempted. This problem is simply stated, easily understood, and all too inviting. Just pick a number, any number...

A mathematician who tamed a nightmarish family of equations that behave so badly they make no sense has won the most lucrative prize in academia. Martin Hairer, an Austrian-British researcher at Imperial College London, is the winner of the 2021 Breakthrough prize for mathematics...