The picture below may not look that complicated to people unfamiliar with knot theory, but it's been confounding mathematicians for decades. Now, a graduate student-turned-MIT professor holds the ...

In modern mathematics, many of the biggest advances are great elaborations of theory. Mathematicians move mountains, but their strength comes from tools, highly sophisticated abstractions that can act ...

Phyllis Simon, the Conway School District’s first director of technology, remembers being the only female in a college graduate calculus class in the 1960s. Times have changed — but not completely.

[NEW YORK] John Horton Conway, an English-born Princeton mathematician whose body of work ranged from the rigorously highbrow to the frivolously fun, earning him prizes and a reputation as a creative, ...

If you want to read about what John Conway has done and why his peers shower him with superlatives — “most creative”, “best combinatorialist”, “one of the most eminent mathematicians of the century” — ...

John Horton Conway, an English-born Princeton mathematician whose body of work ranged from the rigorously highbrow to the frivolously fun, earning him prizes and a reputation as a creative, ...