Computer models that grew from Dr. Lax’s equations have been used in medicine, aviation and weather forecasting.

This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, prolific Japanese mathematician ... Kashiwara has shown the world that sometimes, the simplest ...

Krisztina Regős, mathematician Best known for co-discovering the gömböc—the first convex 3D shape with just two balancing points—Domokos aims to understand the physical world by describing ...

By Siobhan Roberts The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the Latin “optimus,” or “best ... what mathematics can do and what people require in the real world.