One useful feature of the Python math module is quick access to mathematical constants. You can make Python more effective as a scientific calculator by using these same functions with numerical ...

For Mr. Santos, math can also inspire ideas about structures that have already been built — a new way to see and appreciate ...

The Cabot Professor of Mathematics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss life lessons from mathematics, the challenges of formulating good questions, and his work visualizing curved space.

A mere one in five (22%) seniors tested as "proficient" in math, and just a third (35%) in reading. Seventyfour - stock.adobe.com Here’s one more reason to detest teacher unions and other special ...

The GEOMEAN and HARMEAN are advanced statistical functions that typically require a deeper understanding of mathematics. This is probably why they aren't taught as often as the AVERAGE function.

Scientists update Hamilton’s rule with powerful new math, revealing the many ways altruism and cooperation can thrive in living systems.

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...

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 original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 15. (Credit: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press files) Politicians rely on voters who are swayed more by emotion, gut instinct and ...

When Del Norte High senior Tanay Shah was 6 years old, he went to India with his parents to visit relatives. An encounter during that trip set the now 17-year-old on a mission to give children ...