It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

NEWS has reached Great Britain that Prof. David Hilbert, of Gottingen, died recently. He was born on January 23, 1862, and was a mathematician of tremendous power who ranged over a wide field and had ...

Benjamin H. Yandell, the author of a book about mathematicians who had either solved or attempted to solve the 23 problems that David Hilbert laid out for the 20th century in his address to the 2nd ...

The first person to invoke the ‘man on the street’ has been identified, but sometimes maths is just too difficult to make simple. David Hilbert was extremely absent-minded, extraordinarily brilliant ...

The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the eminent mathematician David Hilbert announced a list of 23 key ...

The 1930 Königsberg conference hosted two of the greatest minds in mathematics engaged in a profound struggle. The conference saw David Hilbert, largely regarded as the father of 20th-century ...

The Honors Class: Hilbert’s problems and their solvers by Benjamin H. Yandell, A.K. Peters, £28, ISBN 1568811411 A SLIM set of problems, just 23 “unsettled questions” in mathematics inspired ...

When you think of self-driving cars, the first image that probably comes to mind is 'a person sitting inside, reading a book or watching a movie without their hands on the steering wheel.' A ...