One of the first collaborations Xinyi Yuan and Wei Zhang ever undertook was a trip to the Social Security office. It was the fall of 2004 and the two of them were promising young graduate students in ...

My son is 13. In his English lessons, he spends time learning the grammar and vocabulary of the language - basic necessities for anyone leaving school. But he has also been exposed to some of the ...

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in ...

“There are many different pathways into mathematics,” said Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “There is the stereotype that interest in math displays itself ...

Manjul Bhargava, the Canadian-American number theorist from Princeton University, is one of the four who have been chosen for the highest award in mathematics, the Fields Medal, which is given once ...

At first glance, the worlds of abstract mathematics and human hope may appear disconnected. Yet a deeper look reveals that mathematics cultivates precisely the qualities that sustain hope in times of ...