The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

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Core ideas of calculus remain vital for STEM fields, but other mathematical areas have grown in importance. Andrew Kuhn [email protected] The mathematics education system in the U.S. is overdue ...

Math as both profession and course of study can be a hard sell, something even Don Draper might have trouble pitching. The field unites numbers, theories, and ideas that, yes, can be physically ...

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...

Albert Einstein wrote her obituary. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in ...

When Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in 1935, he described her as a “creative mathematical genius” who – despite “unselfish, significant work over a period of many years” – did not ...