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 ...

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

Physicists have created a quantum version of a famous thought experiment: the so-called Hilbert Hotel, which is always full and yet a vacancy can always be found for additional unexpected guests. Back ...

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 ...

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 ...