Ukrainian professor Maryna Viazovska received top mathematics prize Fields Medal alongside three others – Copyright AFP Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS Ukraine’s Maryna ...

Elon Lindenstrauss, a Princeton professor of mathematics, has received one of this year's Fields Medals, widely considered to be the math world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. "One of the best parts ...

The Fields Medal, often called the Nobel Prize of math, has been awarded this year to Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to ever win the prestigious honor in the prize's 78 years! "This is a great ...

Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University professor Caucher Birkar and an Italian who once preferred football to math on Wednesday were among four winners of the prestigious Fields medal, dubbed the ...

Mathematicians who have studied the most efficient way to pack spheres in eight-dimensional space and the spacing of prime numbers are among this year’s recipients of the highest award in mathematics, ...

In July, up to four of the world’s most promising young mathematicians will receive a Fields Medal, one of the discipline’s highest honours. But the prize, awarded every four years, has honoured only ...

The question that Robert Fefferman posed to Peter Constantin last Friday afternoon was relatively easy as exchanges among University of Chicago mathematicians go. The occasion was a reception to ...

The world’s most prestigious prize for mathematics has been awarded to four researchers during a ceremony in Madrid. The event was somewhat overshadowed, however, by the refusal of one of mathematics’ ...