In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

Golf Digest No. 1 Teacher in America Mark Blackburn explains how you can make your target bigger, just like the pros.

I learned that government is not a faceless, bureaucratic machine. It’s ordinary people working incredibly hard to do a little bit of good. Austin Forrester is a junior at Georgetown University and ...

The premium travel card market is competitive, and American Express has unveiled major changes to the American Express Platinum Card®. Along with shifts to the Chase Sapphire Reserve® and Citi's ...

Mathematics has been the broccoli of school subjects for generations of Australian teenagers. Often pushed aside, dreaded, or even feared, nearly one third of students opt out of any senior math ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ...

New undergraduate curriculum on mathematics is neither up to date with advances in the subject nor does it do justice to the serious mathematics of ancient India The undergraduate curriculum of Indian ...

The future of math education will begin with the divorce of a very long-term marriage between math learning and grade-level instruction. “The Future of Math,” my chapter in School Rethink 2.0, ...

Four months after the Legislature adjourned, the devastation of its feckless, slapdash budgeting is becoming more apparent. Let’s talk about foster children, in particular. Ten years ago, fewer than ...

Common arithmetic says that 2 plus 3 equals 5. If Trump wants the answer to be 7, he will declare the answer of 5 to be crazy, manipulated for political reasons, and fire the mathematician who says ...