Indian-origin mathematician Nalini Joshi has been named New South Wales Scientist of the Year, becoming the first ...

Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 ...

Professors Svetlana Mojsov and Carlos Kenig, among other eminent figures, were selected to win the 48th session of the prize.

The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication. ...

For much of modern history, mathematics has worked in silence. It does not stage revolutions with dramatic announcements, nor ...

The award was announced on Wednesday as part of the NSW Premier's Prizes for Science at Government House in Sydney ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries ...

How many atoms are there in the observable universe? Current estimates point to a number we would write as 1 followed by 80 zeroes, or 10 80. If you peered inside each of these atoms and counted their ...

In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more sharply into view when members of the online Busy Beaver Challenge community closed in on a huge number that threatens to defy the logical ...