April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month—a time to celebrate teaching math, which can be, as experts say, a “hard sell.” I spoke with Sean Nank, a professor of teaching and learning at the ...

PRINCETON-- More than a year after his death, Princeton University mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is bidding farewell to the academic world with a new book about the biggest mysteries of ...

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

Interestingly, when you look at them it isn't hard for those of us who are not mathematicians to see why. The former explains complex elements within a simple framework. The latter is long and messy.

I SAW the film A Beautiful Mind on an aeroplane, dubbed into German with subtitles in Spanish. Though I struggled to make sense of it, it was clear this wasn’t a detailed exposition of the ...

Every week a little dash of math and statistics floats into my mailbox. I make no claims to be a mathematician, but I've learned a great deal from my regular injection of numerate thinking provided by ...

During the Second World War, the Army Air Corps came to a mathematician named Abraham Wald with a pressing question. Officers had surveyed returning bombers after each mission, tabulating the number ...

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It’s hard for anyone to say what music looks like, but a new mathematical approach sees classical music as cone-shaped and jazz as pyramid-like. The connections between math and music are many, from ...