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 ...

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 ...

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 ...