When British mathematician Sir Andrew J. Wiles was awarded the Abel Prize Laureate in math on 15 March for cracking a centuries-old hypothesis, a friend asked me, “Why did he get the prize, and will ...

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One of the world's great mathematicians, died in Cork 150 years ago this week, a thinker whose work paved the way for digital computing and modern electronic devices of all kinds. George Boole, who ...