Always said he had no regrets about leaving band to go back to university and become a math teacher; McCartney reluctantly took up the bass and global stardom followed

Show of 37 pieces by 95-year-old artist, author, Holocaust survivor and toy and puzzle creator Ivan Moscovich at MoMath brings new audience to Shoah history

National team finishes in seventh place at international tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, its best-ever showing

Colleague compared her premature passing to 'echo of a thunderclap' but Emmy Noether's contributions to field through publication of 'ring theory' paper continue to reverberate

Avi Wigderson and Laszlo Lovasz honored with Abel Prize for contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics; 2nd year in a row that an Israeli has won award

Work by 'Ramanujan Machine' in Haifa published in influential journal Nature; development team notes that it's breaking new ground by studying constants, particularly pi

Ben Zauzmer, 26, a baseball analyst for the Los Angeles Dodgers, predicted 20 out of 21 winners last year. Think of him as the Nate Silver of Oscars night