The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought. It took a long time for Claire Voisin to fall in love with mathematics.

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck New York last March and the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) closed its doors to the public, little did we realize we were about to open a virtual door to the ...

Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in the world, but it doesn’t “exist” outside the minds of ...

There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

Do we need to reimagine how we teach math? If AI will be as ubiquitous as we believe it to be, will its inevitability require a pronounced emphasis in math throughout our education system? While it ...

Mathematicians gathered in Kyiv and Warsaw to inaugurate a new center and “open, or reopen, Ukrainian science for the world.” By Siobhan Roberts On a Saturday evening in August, two Ukrainian ...

Research uses artificial intelligence to map connections between the world's top mathematicians. Math's top prize, the Fields Medal, has succeeded in making mathematics more inclusive but still ...