At the beginning of the 20th century, the German mathematician David Hilbert (1862–1943) advocated an ambitious program to formulate a system of axioms and rules of inference that would encompass all ...

Success for Robert Zimmer is defined differently these days. As the president of the University of Chicago since 2006, he’s made headlines for landing nine-figure financial gifts and writing op-eds in ...

Fundamentally, mathematics makes no sense. That probably doesn't come as a surprise to those of us who struggled in algebra or calculus. Though it is the language of science, the truth is that ...