Math Department Chair and professor Jonathan Block serves as the co-chair of the congress’ outreach committee.

Question hovers as world’s premier mathematics conference faces revolt over American visa rules and foreign policies.

An impossible object is something that looks realistic when drawn but can’t exist in real life. Many of Escher’s works are ...

Diffie-Hellman’s key-exchange method runs this kind of exponentiation protocol, with all the operations conducted in this way ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners are out, and this year three Chinese young women mathematicians are making global ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look ...

If you’ve ever spent any length of time in a tall building—either because you live or work in one—you probably know this ...

It took over a decade of checking and rechecking before his fellow mathematicians were happy that Dr Hales’s calculations were, in fact, correct. Such a state of affairs is not unusual. Before a ...

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Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...