He is the first Latin American mathematician to receive the award and the second since 2019 from UT Austin. Luis Caffarelli. Photo credit: Nolan Zunk/University of Texas at Austin The Norwegian ...

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...

Hungarian scholar Gábor Domokos aims to understand the physical world by describing its forms in the simplest possible geometry. It takes Gábor Domokos about an hour to pick his way up into the hills ...

Over the last two years, mathematicians have identified the best versions of a child’s playroom’s worth of shapes. These results occupy a quirky corner of math and, fittingly, have been produced by ...

On a weekend in mid-May, a clandestine mathematical conclave convened. Thirty of the world’s most renowned mathematicians traveled to Berkeley, Calif., with some coming from as far away as the U.K.