The four winners of the 2026 Fields Medal, regarded as the equal of the Nobel Prize for mathematics, have been named. The medals are awarded to scholars younger than 40.

AI’s achievements in math are starting to add up quickly ...

But from the perspective of research mathematicians, and especially young people who are pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics, it’s a bit of a turbulent time. The skills that we’ve acquired and learned to ...

The International Mathematical Union awarded the prestigious Fields Medal to four mathematicians on Thursday, including only the third woman to receive the honour, as researchers weighed the ...

In new research, mathematicians have narrowed down one of the biggest outstanding problems in math. Huge breakthroughs in math and science are usually the work of many people over many years. Seven ...

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community. Levent ...

A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms ...

Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after ...

BOSTON—For a long time, the “joint” in the Joint Mathematics Meetings—the annual math professional meeting held each January, known as the world’s largest mathematics gathering—referred to the two ...

PHILADELPHIA—Math’s most prestigious prizes were announced today at the International Congress of Mathematicians. Following a ...