When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Hilbert's sixth problem was one of the loftiest. He called for "axiomatizing" physics, or ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the ...

In 1900, the great mathematician David Hilbert presented a list of 23 unsolved problems worth investigating in the new century. The list became a road map for the field, guiding mathematicians through ...

NEWS has reached Great Britain that Prof. David Hilbert, of Gottingen, died recently. He was born on January 23, 1862, and was a mathematician of tremendous power who ranged over a wide field and had ...

The 1930 Königsberg conference hosted two of the greatest minds in mathematics engaged in a profound struggle. The conference saw David Hilbert, largely regarded as the father of 20th-century ...

Benjamin H. Yandell, the author of a book about mathematicians who had either solved or attempted to solve the 23 problems that David Hilbert laid out for the 20th century in his address to the 2nd ...

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 ...