SANTA CRUZ – Instead of shooting paint-ball guns with friends or loafing at home, 15-year-old Nash McQuaide has spent a chunk of summer break hunkered down trying to solve algebraic equations.

A popular humorist and avowed mathphobe once declared that in real life, there’s no such thing as algebra. Kathie Wilson knows better. Most of the students in her 8th grade class will be thrust into ...

In most formulas, one variable is by itself on the left hand side (LHS) of the formula. This variable is the subject of the formula. Changing the subject of the formula is a process of rearranging a ...

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A team of physicists, geologists and signal theorists from the University of Granada, Spain, has developed a machine-learning-based algorithm designed to predict when Mount St. Helens will erupt. A ...

Dec. 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns without the use of proofs or modern ...

Eight of the 10 highest-paying jobs right out of college are tied to majors that require significant math skills — think engineering and technology — and the U.S. Commerce Department reports that ...