André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, respectively. Konrad Jacobs (right) and Anonymous (left) via Wikimedia Commons, ...

Pythagoras believed in reincarnation, remembered his past lives, and saw the soul as deeply connected to the cosmos.

A mathematician and a philosopher at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded prestigious 2001 Guggenheim Fellowships. One will spend the next year developing a new theory of control ...

Prof. Emeritus William Walker Tait, an acclaimed philosopher and mathematician at the University of Chicago, died March 15 in Naperville, Ill. He was 95. Known by colleagues as one of the most ...

SCREF copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, ...

Infinity, by definition, is the idea of something that is endless or without boundaries. It is a concept that has perplexed thinkers and philosophers for centuries. Ancient civilizations, such as the ...

NEW YORK — Émilie du Châtelet led an extraordinary life. An 18th-century physicist, mathematician and philosopher, she took famed writers — including Voltaire — as lovers. As she worked on her final ...

THE HISTORY Of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the Babbage engine up through the code-breaking machines of World War II. In fact, it is better understood as a ...