From female scientists whose work was credited to men to ancient high priestesses, these women truly changed history-but were also overlooked by it.

Greg Jenner is joined in late antique Egypt by Professor Edith Hall and comedian Olga Koch to learn about the life of mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria. An important mathematical and astronomical ...

Hypatia, one of the greatest philosophers of Alexandria, was admired for her ideas but was brutally murdered for them by ...

Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned mathematician and philosopher, taught in the ancient world when few women had such opportunities. Her life as a public intellectual and advisor ended tragically in ...

Creative director Ian Griffiths took cues from the Middle Ages for his quietly strong autumn/winter ’26/’27 collection.

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper. But this torus, which is a surface, looks drastically different than the ...

BURNABY - Homicide investigators have released a photo of a missing mathematician from Burnaby, B.C., to help with their search for the man. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says 45-year-old ...

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Monday, Feb. 16 and Feb. 17 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV JOURNEYS OF BLACK MATHEMATICIANS is a two-part series that traces the cultural evolution of Black ...

Urban legends about how much students and people hate math might be exaggerated. While we're in school, many of us consider the subject impenetrable. However, at least in England, mathematics has been ...

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