IN a recent number (NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 263) we took occasion to suggest that the usefulness of a school scientific society might still further be increased by calling in the assistance of ...

DIFFERENTIAL geometry is a technical and rather forbidding term, but the subject is of the highest interest, and not to mathematicians alone. It includes the whole theory of mapdrawing; it is required ...

Bernhard Riemann was a man with a hypothesis. He was confident that it was true, probably. But he didn’t prove it. And attempts over the last century and a half by others to prove it have failed. A ...

The John von Neumann–Lecture is held in honor of John von Neumann, a scientist who symbolizes interaction between many fields of mathematics and applications. He gave major contributions to research ...