WASHINGTON – An Iranian-born Stanford University professor is the first woman to win math's highest honor, the Fields Medal. The International Mathematics Union awarded the prize to Maryam Mirzakhani ...

Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal, mathematics' leading award, has died of cancer at the age of 40, Stanford News Service said. What was worse ...

In an effort to remedy Harvard’s relative weakness in a critical field, Harvard has succeeded in luring a star mathematician away from Stanford University to strengthen its own mathematics department.

Taking a more visual approach to math instruction at the K-12 and higher-ed levels could dramatically change brain development as it relates to future math success, according to a new paper from ...

A pioneer mathematician who guided Stanford University's early computer science program in the 1950s and '60s died last month and will be honored with a fund in his name. Stanford has established the ...

After a four-year hiatus, the Stanford Undergraduate Mathematical Organization (SUMO) has brought back the Stanford Math Tournament (SMT), its annual math tournament for high school students. The ...

STANFORD (CBS SF) - A Stanford professor has become the first woman ever to win the Fields medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics. Professor Maryam Mirzakhani will be recognized for ...