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

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 ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician whose groundbreaking work made GPS possible, has died at the age of 95. West passed away over the weekend surrounded by family and friends. Born on a ...

Hypatia of Alexandria, born around 350 to 370 AD, was an eminent Neoplatonist philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer who resided in Alexandria, Egypt, then a vibrant cultural capital of the ...

Takashi Ono, widely influential number theorist and professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, died in Florida on Jan. 11.

In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert presented his colleagues with a list of problems he believed both captured the present state of mathematics and the shape of its future. This year, 125 years later ...

Mathematician Chen Min has left Purdue University’s maths department to join the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo as a full-time faculty member, the latest Chinese academic to return home from ...

National Mathematics Day honors Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught genius born in 1887. His groundbreaking work on series and partitions, despite lacking formal proofs, captivated mathematicians like ...

The innovative mathematical ideas that were created by talented mathematicians in India over many centuries helped to create modern science. Unfortunately, during the colonial period, very few places ...