Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections between Mathematics and Literature; by Sarah Hart; Flatiron; 290 pp., $29.99 In Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections between Mathematics and ...

“Call me Ishmael.” This has to be one of the most famous opening sentences in all of literature, and I’m embarrassed to say that — until quite recently — I didn’t get beyond it. “Moby-Dick” was, for ...

In the opinion piece, “Why Doctoral Programs Should Require Courses on Pedagogy” (The Chronicle, March 16), Benjamin Rifkin, Rebecca S. Natow, Nicholas P. Salter, and Shayla Shorter suggest that ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, ...

This spirited if inessential debut by Hart, a math professor at the University of London, surveys how math influences the structure, symbolism, and themes of literature. She posits that math and ...

ALBANY — More requirements for math as early as kindergarten and teaching a greater understanding of literature are among new standards for New York’s public schools to be in place by the 2011-12 ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the ...

A new novel by author Nicole Wachell combines story with art, an interactive website and a math concept known as Pascal’s Triangle. The book, “A Right Amount of Brilliance,” is about two university ...

Sarah Hart, the first woman to hold England’s distinguished Gresham professorship of geometry, explores the intersections of music, literature and mathematics. Sarah Hart, professor of geometry at ...