This episode explores why Perelman, after achieving what mathematicians had attempted for over a century, chose total isolation. It covers his rise as a prodigy, his groundbreaking proof, and the ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan grew up poor in India with no formal university training in mathematics. Yet the formulas he mailed to Cambridge stunned some of the greatest minds of the time. G.H. Hardy ...

Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart ...

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

American mathematics professor, blackjack pioneer and hedge fund manager Edward Thorp says he recognized Warren Buffett's potential to become the richest man in the world when he first met the Oracle ...

Cover of the English edition of the autobiography of mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, titled The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry. [Photo provided to China ...

A seemingly easy math puzzle making the rounds on the internet has left people scratching their heads as it requires some clever thinking. The brainteaser, that was shared on X this week by user ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Chinese mathematician Wu Meng (middle) has left Finland’s University of Oulu to continue his award-winning research as a professor at Hunan University. Chinese mathematician Wu Meng has returned to ...