The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical ...

Have you ever wondered who is behind geometry's most fundamental truths? You guessed it: it is Euclid of Greece.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together seemingly disparate mathematical fields ...