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In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and delivered a speech that would echo through the next century. He outlined 10 — and ...

I. David Hilbert was 38 years old when he stepped up to address the Second International Congress of Mathematicians on the morning of Wednesday, August 8, 1900. The son of a judge in the East Prussian ...

The University of Leicester will be facilitating interdisciplinary discussion across key mathematical and physical disciplines involved in the solution of Hilbert's sixth problem: To axiomatise the ...

Every December 8 for years, Julia Robinson blew out the candles on her birthday cake and made the same wish: that someday she would know the answer to Hilbert’s 10th problem. Though she worked on the ...

The first person to invoke the ‘man on the street’ has been identified, but sometimes maths is just too difficult to make simple. David Hilbert was extremely absent-minded, extraordinarily brilliant ...