He clarified the concept of pressure and vacuum. Hungarian-American John von Neumann was credited as one of the greatest mathematicians of his age. Besides his widespread contributions to broad ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

Gauss could easily be called the greatest mathematician ever. Carl Friedrich Gauss was born to a poor family in Germany in 1777 and quickly showed himself to be a brilliant mathematician.

"This is a problem that many of the world's greatest mathematicians have worked on, and for good reason—in addition to having ...

another contemporary mathematician, Jean-Etienne Montucla, also revealed some of the mathematical sexism that persists down to the present day. He wrote: “We cannot but behold with the greatest ...