The Clay Mathematics Institute announced March 18 that it is awarding its first Millennium Prize, this one for the resolution of the Poincaré conjecture, to Grigoriy Perelman, formerly of the Steklov ...

Prof. William “Bill” Thurston was a world renowned mathematician who made several strides in the field of low-dimensional topology, the study of how two-, three- and four-dimensional objects are ...

Two Chinese mathematicians have put the final pieces together in the solution to a puzzle that has perplexed scientists around the globe for more than a century. The two scientists have published a ...

The Poincaré conjecture can be understood by analogy with the case in two dimensions. A two-dimensional space, or surface, is like a bubble made from an infinitely thin film of soap. If the bubble is ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American William Thurston, whose geometrization ...

Two Chinese mathematicians have put the final pieces together in the solution to a puzzle that has perplexed scientists around the globe for more than a century. Foreign member of the Chinese Acadamy ...