t started as a fantasy, then a promise — inspired by biology and animated by the ideas of physicists — and grew to become a powerful research tool. Now artificial intelligence has evolved into ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

The Navier–Stokes partial differential equation was developed in the early 19th century by Claude-Louis Navier and George Stokes. It has proved its worth for modelling incompressible fluids in ...