Mathematics

In math as in life, Vladimir Voevodsky played by his own rules.

Voevodsky, a Russian-born mathematical prodigy, produced a string of daring insights in the 1990s that revolutionized one of the central fields of mathematics and established him at the...

Not going to class isn't typically something good to boast about. But perhaps the late Vladimir Voevodsky is the exception to the rule.

Voevodsky is credited with founding new fields of mathematics, such as motivic homotopy theory, and a computer...

Vladimir Voevodsky, a mathematician who grew up in Russia before coming to the United States, where his work was recognized with the Fields Medal, often regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics, died Sept. 30 in Princeton, N.J...

Vladimir Voevodsky, a once-gifted but restless student who flunked out of college out of boredom before emerging as one of the most brilliant and revolutionary mathematicians of his generation, died on Sept. 30 at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was...

Vladimir Voevodsky, a truly extraordinary and original mathematician who made remarkable advances in algebraic geometry, and whose most recent work concerned rewriting the foundations of mathematics to make them suitable for computer proof...

The Institute for Advanced Study is deeply saddened by the passing of Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor in the School of Mathematics.

Voevodsky, a truly extraordinary and original mathematician, made many contributions to the field of mathematics...

In 1892, the mathematician Otto Hölder posed a question that would occupy the field for more than a century: Is it possible to make a periodic table of all finite symmetry? The answer, to which hundreds of mathematicians have contributed, is yes...

Frequent Director's Visitor Siobhan Roberts chronicles the life and impact of the late Lotfi Zadeh, logician and former Member in the School of Mathematics, whose innovative and controversial work on fuzzy logic was met with both ardent support and...

In a breakthrough that disproves decades of conventional wisdom, two mathematicians, including Maryanthe Malliaris, von Neumann Fellow in the School of Mathematics, have shown that two different variants of infinity are actually the same size. The...

Philip Anderson won the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of what is now called Anderson localization, a term that refers to waves that stay in some “local” region rather than propagating the way you’d expect. He studied the phenomenon...