Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a new paper, the historian of economics at Radboud University explores the complex history of ...

Although he is only twenty-two years old, Liev Kanterovich, Soviet Jewish mathematical genius, is already Professor of Mathematics at Leningrad University, head of the Leningrad Institute of ...

At the tender age of 7, while most kids were learning to ride bikes and play video games, Natalia was pondering early principles of multiplication and algebra two hours per week in her Russian math ...