By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...

PALO ALTO, CALIF. — A century-old math puzzle so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan was finally cracked by an international research team that had been ...

Scientists have solved one of the toughest problems in mathematics, performing a calculation to figure out the symmetry of a 248-dimensional object known as the Lie group E8. The solution is so large ...

A monstrous computer-based calculation has rekindled researchers' hopes of solving a longstanding problem in mathematics. In a style of collaboration more commonly associated with sequencing genomes, ...

Geordie Williamson of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, will receive the inaugural AMS Claude Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory. Williamson is honored "for his work on the ...

Victor Kac of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be awarded the 2015 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January in San Antonio, Texas.