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 ...

In science and mathematics, it has been a fairly common occurrence for two different people/teams to be working on the same problem, and invent the same solution. After all, both fields are concerned ...

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 ...

In popular literature written by pedlars of postmodern nonsense, Austrian logician Kurt Gödel is often said to have destroyed mathematical certainty with his incompleteness theorems – which say there ...

This is the second in a two-part series. Part one can be found here. The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of ...

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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 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 ...