Ingebrigt Vik's portrait of mathematician Nils Henrik Abel shows the genius but frail and sick mathematician, with a weighed-down and emaciated head and slender body. The sketch for the sculpture was ...

Yau’s maths centre at Tsinghua in Beijing is one example where top foreign mathematicians have been recruited.

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. In May, a ...

Infinity contains everything, including multiple kinds of infinities. Mathematicians have long known that there are many kinds of infinities (technically, there are an infinity of them).

Our community thrives on collaboration and intellectual curiosity. If you're passionate about mathematics and statistics you'll feel at home here. Welcome to the Department of Mathematics at Imperial ...

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits.

Mathematicians aren't usually the first point of call on moving day. And really, why should they be? For nearly 60 years, they couldn't even tell you whether your fancy new three-seat sofa would make ...

Class 12th Mathematics Syllabus 2025: CBSE has recently published its newly revised syllabus for students of Classes 9, 10, 11, and 12. All the students who wish to check the CBSE Class 12 ...

A mathematician at Yonsei University, in Korea, claims to have solved the moving sofa problem. Jineon Baek has posted a 100+-page proof of the problem on the arXiv preprint server. Most people who ...

A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes — numbers that are only divisible by themselves ...