From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. This particular list focuses on ...

From ancient geometers to modern theorists, mathematics has been shaped by a rare breed of thinkers who bent the rules of logic and imagination to reveal the hidden order of the universe. Debates over ...

Tens of thousands of handwritten pages by one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians, Alexander Grothendieck, many of which the eccentric genius penned while living as a hermit, were unveiled ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. birth. Not yet one month in the world, and he was already two years old! Thus, when ...

I. Göttingen was not, of course, the only place where first-class mathematics was being done in the early years of the twentieth century. Here is the English mathematician John Edensor Littlewood, ...