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 ...

The symbols we use every day have fascinating and surprisingly recent origins, explains author Joseph Mazur in his new book A few years ago friends and I were talking about the origins of written ...

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 ...

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.