Dilma Rousseff welcomes Impa scholar Artur Avila, the Brazilian mathematician who won the Fields MedalAntonio Cruz/ Agência Brasil Mathematician Artur Avila, recipient of the Fields Medal, regarded as ...

Brazil has become part of the global elite in mathematics. In January, the International Mathematical Union (IMU) approved the country’s promotion into group 5, which is composed of a restricted ...

Six students and two teachers from Brazil are to fly next Saturday (Jul 5) to Cape Town, South Africa, to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad. Six hundred young boys and girls from 100 ...

The world's top mathematicians will convene in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to find out the new winners of the Fields Medal, the award often dubbed the Nobel Prize for math. It is the first time that a ...