That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris.

Legendary mathematician David Hilbert presented 10 unsolved problems as ambitious guideposts for the 20th century. He later expanded his list to include 23 problems, and their influence on ...

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ...

Mathematicians have recentlysolved a problem that has eluded scientists for over 125 years, bridging three key theories that ...

There are a lot of reasons why people are motivated to do scientific research, with sheer curiosity about the natural world ...

chief among them David Hilbert and Felix Klein. That only changed in 1919, when the end of the first world war and the replacement of the German Reich by the liberal Weimar Republic brought a sea ...