For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

WHILE mathematics has always been recognized as one of the cornerstones of our educational system, we are entering an era in which an understanding of mathematics will be of even greater importance to ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

For sheer brilliance, it was hard to beat John von Neumann. An architect of the modern computer and inventor of game theory, von Neumann was legendary, above all, for his lightning-fast mental ...

The past decade has been an exciting one in the world of mathematics and a fabulous one (in the literal sense) for mathematicians, who saw themselves transformed from the frogs of fairy tales -- ...

The Department of Mathematics is committed to providing students with the foundational training necessary for graduate work as well as careers in education, business, industry, and public service. Our ...

Professor of Education and Mathematics Education, University of the Witwatersrand At a time when decolonisation, part of which involves changing the content of what’s taught, is dominating debate at ...

At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...

When Larisa Itina was emigrating from Russia in 2000, her son Boris told her not to bother packing all the toys, games and puzzles she'd collected for helping children learn math. He said, " 'Mother, ...