Sometimes agreeing and sometimes disagreeing, André and Simone Weil were the sort of siblings who would argue about such questions. André achieved renown as a mathematician; Simone was a ...

The greatest mathematician-cum-singer-songwriter of all time Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who ...

Evelyn Boyd Granville, barrier-breaking mathematician, dies at 99 Dr. Granville was among the first Black women to receive a doctorate in mathematics and later worked on calculations for the space ...

Peter’s father became Dr. Courant’s physician, while Dr. Courant mentored Peter in mathematics. At 18, having already published his first math paper, Peter was drafted into the U.S. Army.

National News Ada Lovelace, a Mathematician Who Wrote the First Computer Program A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer.

“But I’ve had nothing to do with that. When I first posed the conjecture, it had nothing to do with physics. It was strictly geometry.” Calabi was not always determined to become a mathematician. His ...

The first Italian youth she was hoping to reach may have been her younger siblings: Pietro had 21 children by his three wives, though few of them survived to adulthood.

Quick aside: some contend that 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler was the most prolific of all time. Indeed, Euler produced more pages of math, whereas Erdős produced more papers.