Three Princeton University faculty members have received highly prestigious awards for their accomplishments in mathematics. The announcements of this year’s Fields Medal, Gauss Prize, Abacus Medal ...

Gauss came from extremely humble origins. His grandfather was a landless peasant; his father was a jobbing gardener and bricklayer. Gauss attended the poorest kind of local school. A famous incident, ...

A group of mathematicians has announced a milestone in the effort to thoroughly verify the solution of the sphere-packing problem — for which the Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska won the ...