This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information This monthly journal, begun in 1950, is devoted entirely to research in pure and applied mathematics, principally to the ...

Andrew Wiles devoted much of his career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, a challenge that perplexed the best minds in mathematics for 300 years. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he ...

ALEXANDER GROTHENDIECK in 1965. (Photo courtesy of Images Des Mathematiques) The tiny village of Lasserre is tucked into one of France's southernmost hills, a hamlet of stone buildings strong in the ...

This past week, I began reading The Maniac, a fictionalized biography of John von Neumann. While von Neumann is perhaps lesser known than some of his contemporaries — Albert Einstein, J. Robert ...