Neumann Prize 2025 goes to Karl Sigmund

04.02.2026

The British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) announces the winner of the 2025 Neumann Prize: Karl Sigmund for his work ‘The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy’.

In ‘The Waltz of Reason’, Sigmund describes how mathematical ideas and philosophical thinking have inspired each other over more than two thousand years. Swedish, Chinese, Korean and German translations are in preparation.

Congratulations to Karl Sigmund!