Shiing-shen Chern, 93, a Chinese American mathematician famous for his breakthroughs in differential geometry, died Friday of natural causes in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin. Chern, who ...

Shing-Tung Yau is a mathematician in the field of differential geometry. He has won many awards and fellowships, including the Fields Medal (the highest award given to mathematicians). His work has ...

This release is available in German. Mathematician Alexander Lytchak is to receive this year's von Kaven Award for Mathematics from the von Kaven Foundation, a fund administered by the Deutsche ...

DIFFERENTIAL geometry is a technical and rather forbidding term, but the subject is of the highest interest, and not to mathematicians alone. It includes the whole theory of mapdrawing; it is required ...

Pardon, who will receive a five-year, $875,000 grant, explores problems in geometric topology — which is the study of properties of shapes that are preserved under continuous deformations — and ...

Vladimir Drinfeld, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, is one of two recipients of the prestigious Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences ...

Mathematics and physics share a close, reciprocal relationship. Mathematics offers the language and tools to describe physical phenomena, while physics drives the development of new mathematical ideas ...