The town of Peterborough has quietly become the administrative headquarters of the Clay Mathematics Institute, the nonprofit organization that’s seeking answers to seven of the problems that ...

A Vietnamese math talent has been awarded a research fellowship at the Clay Mathematics Institute in the U.S. Pham Tuan Huy was awarded the Clay Research Fellowship along with Paul Minter, the Clay ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18 -- The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announces today that Dr. Grigoriy Perelman of St. Petersburg, Russia, is the recipient of the Millennium Prize for resolution of the ...

Grigori Perelman isn't much for prizes. This week Perelman, one of the world best and strangest mathematicians, proved it again by turning down a $1 million dollar prize from the Clay Mathematics ...

A tablet that dates back some 3700 years has been found to be the oldest example of applied geometry in the history of mathematics. Australian mathematician Dr. Daniel Mansfield from UNSW Science's ...