Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society. Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society. The Open Mind is available ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...

There is a lot more to math than just equations on a chalkboard. It is a very useful set of tools for tackling problems in many different fields. Math tactics affect our environment in ways that most ...

Science journalist Nadis and Tsinghua University mathematician Yau follow up 2019’s The Shape of a Life with an esoteric exploration of geometry’s role in explaining gravity and the structure of the ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...

IN treatises on practical geometry rules are given by which an arc and its chord or an arc and its tangent may be divided proportionally, but they leave an error ...

In his new book, In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, Ian Stewart recounts one of the worst jokes in the history of science. You can develop your own setup from first ...