August 2021

MOSCOW — A well-known young mathematician from Russian Tatarstan, sentenced to six years in prison for hooliganism which he and his supporters rejected, says he would not be surprised if he was denied early parole for resisting attempts…

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is pictured at her desk at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Born August 26, 1918 in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, Johnson worked at Langley from 1953 until her…

Official trailer for "Adventures of a Mathematician" on Stan Ulam by Alex Billington August 26, 2021Source: Youtube "They don't really think about using the bomb, do they?" Samuel Goldwyn Films has unveiled an!--Watch-->…

Updated August 25, 2021 5:52 PM ET James Loewen, renowned sociologist, public educator and racial justice activist, died Thursday, August 19, 2021 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. He was the author of several books,…

On January 27, the pro-Trump channel OAN aired a segment interviewing an "expert mathematician" named Ed Solomon who claimed to have found evidence in district-level reports that the election was rigged by an algorithm. The basis for…

Rudy Giuliani after an interview with One America News Network's Chanel Rion outside the West Wing of the White House on July 1, 2020. Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesIn January, One America News Network featured an "expert mathematician" in…

In January, One America News Network featured an "expert mathematician" in an interview. The "expert" claimed to have uncovered evidence that the 2020 election…

An Australian mathematician has discovered what may be the oldest known example of applied geometry, on a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet.Known as Si.427, the tablet bears a ground plan measuring the boundaries of certain lands.The…

The significance of the tablet was unknown until Dr. Mansfield's detective work was revealed. Credit: UNSW Sydney…