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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The United States’ mathematics education system largely was designed to produce a small number of STEM professionals who could beat the Soviet Union to outer space, armed only with pencils and paper.

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 ...

Tamar Lichter Blanks received funding from the National Science Foundation through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass ...

“HIGHER Mathematics,” edited by Mansfield Merriman and Robert S. Woodward, is a text-book for classical and engineering colleges, and is a work containing 600 pages. Each chapter is written by a ...

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A century ago, the great mathematician David Hilbert posed a probing question in pure mathematics. A recent advance in optimization theory is bringing Hilbert’s work into a world of self-driving cars.

CHELMSFORD — In 2019, Matthew Beyranevand, the K-12 mathematics coordinator at Chelmsford Public Schools, and Hilary Kreisberg, a town resident and director of the center for mathematics achievement ...

What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question. Mathematics started with numbers — clear, ...