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 ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform.

Bertrand Russell, a towering 20th-century philosopher, logician, and mathematician, reshaped modern thought through analytic philosophy and works like *Principia Mathematica*. Beyond intellect, he ...

Steven G. Krantz,, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, illuminates mathematicians' very human brilliance in his book, Mathematical Apocrypha Redux, his sequel to his ...

This episode traces the role of HBCUs and mentors in growing the community of Black mathematicians. The episode relates stories of prominent African American mathematicians who struggled through ...