April 2019

The shape of a lifeShing-Tung Yau and Steve NadisYale University, $28 One of the first remarkable things mathematician Shing-Tung Yau reveals in his memoirs, The shape of a life, is that originally his name was not Yau. His…

The Royal London Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge announced on April 16 that 51 "eminent scientists," including an Indian-American mathematician from Princeton, Manjul Bhargava, became members or foreign members of the…

An American mathematician has solved part of a problem that has remained unsolved for 64 years.Andrew Booker, reader of pure mathematics at the University of Bristol in the UK, discovered how to express the number 33 as the sum of three…