THE world has lost by the death of Henri Poincare one of the greatest men who have lived in the present century, one who was equally at home in the domains of mathematics, mechanics, physics and ...

The Poincare conjecture involves topology, a branch of math that studies shapes. It essentially says that in three dimensions you cannot transform a doughnut shape into a sphere without ripping it ...

France's first museum dedicated to the world of mathematics, Maison Poincaré, is the newest addition to Paris's Latin Quarter. The research-based venue, which opened its doors this week, is to be ...

Antti Kupiainen is honored for his pioneering contributions to quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, and fluid dynamics which beautifully blend together renormalization group methods with ...