In 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a cool million bucks for the answer to any of the seven math problems that they’ve deemed the hardest in the world. The Millennium Problems: The Seven ...

I. David Hilbert was 38 years old when he stepped up to address the Second International Congress of Mathematicians on the morning of Wednesday, August 8, 1900. The son of a judge in the East Prussian ...

I. The 1859 paper “On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity” was Bernhard Riemann’s only publication on number theory, and the only one of his productions that contained no ...