Math

The Cambridge mathematician expounds on the delightful irony of Brouwer's fixed-point theorem

Embracing shared identity, community and a chance to pursue excellence in teaching

Fixed points and pizza

The Fields Medals have been awarded to four researchers who work on number theory, geometry and network analysis

Images and sculptures inspired by mathematical principles show off the intense beauty of the discipline

Why you should give the award to me

A rose by any other name would be as mathematically useful...

Stephen Smale and the history of the Fields medal

Ingrid Daubechies shares the Tutte embedding theorem and how it can help biologists understand the evolution of teeth

The Berkeley math professor shares his favorite prime proofs

An analysis of the movement of some 40,000 people suggests most of us frequent only 25 places—and as we sub in new favorites, we drop old ones. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Because sometimes a Cantor set just wants to feel pretty