Galois was just 20 years old when he was shot in a mysterious duel — but not before revolutionizing mathematics. The night ...

It's been more than 20 years since Rubik's Cube, the maddening, multicolored brainchild of a Hungarian architect teacher, hit the American market full force. Now, two decades after the cube craze ...

Researchers at tech giant IBM (IBM) have developed a new quantum algorithm that shows a notable speed advantage over the best ...

Rostislav Grigorchuk of Texas A&M University will be awarded the 2015 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January in San Antonio, Texas.

A new breakthrough that bridges number theory and geometry is just the latest triumph for a close-knit group of mathematicians. One of the first collaborations Xinyi Yuan and Wei Zhang ever undertook ...