Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...

I make short, to-the-point online math tutorials. I struggled with math growing up and have been able to use those ...

I make short, to-the-point online math tutorials. I struggled with math growing up and have been able to use those ...

Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language ...

Excerpted with permission from Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark. Available from Random House/Knopf. Copyright ...

War in Europe is a staple topic in the study of history, but there’s one major conflict most history books won’t teach you: the battle of the equal sign, =. These two parallel lines were, in fact, the ...

South Dakota's proposed math standards are sparking debate, with critics saying they're too simple and lack guidance.