Wei Ho, the first director of the Women and Mathematics program at the Institute for Advanced Study, combines algebra and geometry in her work on an ancient class of curves. Like many people who would ...

From prehistoric pottery designs to the formal proofs of ancient Greece, mathematics has evolved as both an art and a science. Across cultures and centuries, humans have used patterns, geometry, and ...

For decades, generations of Americans took the same basic high school math track. Algebra. Geometry. Algebra 2. Now, school districts across the country are overhauling their approach, combining ...

The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...

Blending geometry with art transforms math from abstract to hands-on fun for kids. From marshmallow-built shapes to polygon stencils, these projects spark creativity while reinforcing key math ...

Sam Raskin in a still from the video “The Geometric Langlands Conjecture”. Credit: Institute for Advanced Study / Youtube Sam Raskin, a mathematician and professor at Yale University, has achieved a ...

A Tufts University professor has a proposal to combat gerrymandering: give more geometry experts a day in court. Moon Duchin is an associate professor of math and director of the Science, Technology ...

Lindsey Henderson hopes to change the conversation about math in her state. As student math performance declined in Utah and states across the nation over the pandemic, most learning-recovery efforts ...