Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical ...

Aryabhata is considered one of the great mathematicians and astronomers of ancient India. He presented the concept of zero as a placeholder and developed a decimal system upon which modern arithmetic ...

Louis Nirenberg, a mathematician who explored the complexities of equations commonly used by physicists and engineers, and who shared the 2015 Abel Prize, a top math award modeled after the Nobels, ...

Joseph John Kohn, professor of mathematics, emeritus, a 1956 Ph.D. alumnus and a leader in the field of several complex variables, died on Sept. 13. He was 91. Born in Prague in May 1932, Kohn ...