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Last June, my friend and I found the door to a makeshift attic inside of Silliman College’s Grove Street tower. It was locked, but with a little jiggling of a plastic knife, my friend and I accessed ...

Albert Einstein wrote her obituary. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in ...

At the inception of University College Ibadan which in 1962 metamorphosed to the formidable University of Ibadan, the founding principal, Dr. Kenneth Mellanby made sure that high level research ...

I was delighted to read Stephen Budiansky’s review of my book “The Man from the Future” (Feb. 26), an intellectual biography of the Hungarian-American mathematical genius John von Neumann. I am ...

In order to better understand capitalism, Karl Marx taught himself parts of algebra and calculus. Nevertheless, he was not a mathematical genius. The historian of science and mathematician Annette ...

Ramanujan was an Indian mathematical genius who failed out of college because he refused to study non-mathematical subjects.By every academic rule we use today, Srinivasa Ramanujan was a failure. He ...

The drama is centered around Catherine's relationship with her father, a recently deceased mathematical genius Credit: Kyle Barnette PROOF follows Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently ...

In the mid-1980s, Simon Norton was considered one of the great mathematical prodigies of the 20th century. Decades later, biographer Alexander... Meet The Mathematical 'Genius In My Basement' In the ...

In the mid-1980s, Simon Norton was considered one of the great mathematical prodigies of the 20th century. He worked on a hyper-dimensional math problem so complex it was called "The Monster." But ...