Henri Cartan, a mathematician known for meticulous proofs and for inspiring a revival of mathematics in France after World War II, died in Paris on Aug. 13. He was 104. His death was confirmed by the ...

MARSEILLE, France - Nearly 18,000 pages of notes by eccentric French math genius Alexandre Grothendieck were posted online Wednesday by his alma mater, Montpellier University in southern France.

He is the fifth French Abel winner since the award was created by Norway's government Paris: For Michel Talagrand, who won the Abel mathematics prize on Wednesday, maths provided a fun life free from ...

French bulldogs are some pretty intelligent canines. As we are sure many Frenchie parents will tell you, these muscular little canines exhibit some pretty remarkable instinctive and adaptive ...

Yves Meyer, a French Jewish mathematician, won the Abel Prize on Tuesday for his work on the “wavelet theory,” which has been applied in data compression, noise reduction, medical imaging and digital ...

Frenchman have collected five of 30 Fields medals awarded by the International Mathematicians' Congress since 1950, but only one has come in the past 20 years. And the number of mathematicians has ...

Back when I was in middle school, there were four days of the year that we considered to be better than Christmas – the four half-days when teachers had their super-secret staff meetings. Thanks to ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. BEZIERS, France — A depressed French math teacher set herself on fire in a high school playground on Thursday ...