Students studying math can focus on statistics. Statistics is one of the fastest-growing fields in the country and is ranked No. 9 for Best Technology Jobs, No. 50 in Best STEM Jobs, and No. 92 in 100 ...

One of the winners of the award known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics had his gold medal stolen minutes after it was given to him. Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math ...

Akshay Venkatesh, a Princeton Graduate School alumnus, is one of four recipients of the 2018 Fields Medal, widely considered the Nobel Prize of the mathematics world. Venkatesh, a Distinguished ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

STANFORD, Calif. -- Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University who was the first and only woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics, has died. She was 40. Mirzakhani, who ...

A Kurdish refugee to the UK is one of the four recipients of the 2018 Fields medals. Caucher Birkar was given the award at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The ...

The International Mathematical Union awarded its prestigious Fields Medal on Tuesday to three professors who teach at universities in the United States and France, and to a reclusive Russian ...

The mathematical physics underpinning electromagnetic fields and wave equations provides a rigorous framework for understanding the behaviour of electric and magnetic phenomena in both classical and ...

Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical ...

Alfred Nobel's prestigious awards honor many fields but notably exclude mathematics. This has sparked curiosity for years. While popular myths about personal rivalries exist, historical research ...

For a few months now, the mathematical world has been abuzz. Rumors abound of a new proof, monumental in length and virtually ...