From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. This particular list focuses on ...

Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles, working in the rarefied ...

Introduction -- Thales of Miletus: Greek (circa 624-546 BCE) -- Pythagoras: Greek (575-500 BCE) -- Eudoxus of Cnidus: Greek (390-337 BCE) -- Euclid: Greek (circa 300 ...

Sometimes work in one discipline of pure mathematics has a completely unexpected payoff in another. Some of the famous mathematician Pierre de Fermat’s (1601–1665) work in number theory bears this out ...