Mathematicians are an odd bunch. Isaac Newton was decidedly unpleasant, secretive and resentful while Carl Friedrich Gauss, according to several biographies, was cold and austere, more likely to ...

In this week’s puzzle from the Irish Mathematical Trust, we sit with some dead mathematicians to help them solve a fun maths problem. In the great, non-denominational, all-inclusive after-life, there ...

It’s April, which means I will arbitrarily assume it’s time to discuss Heegner numbers. There are, I’ll have you know, exactly nine Heegner numbers. Not less, not more. This was a conjecture first ...

From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. For upcoming profiles on famous ...

There is great public interest in genealogy. Many of us live in hope of identifying some illustrious forebear, or enjoy the frisson of having a notorious murderer in our family tree. Numerous websites ...