Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

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In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

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When a bank’s value-at-risk model fails backtesting, risk managers know what to do. They trace the problem to specific components – like a stale risk factor time series, or an underperforming ...

DESTREHAN, La. — During a recent group project in her eighth-grade engineering class, Charlotte Buccola took charge. Standing between the two boys on her team, she silently arranged sticky notes on a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Terence Tao, often called the “Mozart of Math,” is focused on fundraising after federal research funding to UCLA was suspended. Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...