Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by mathematician Terence Tao and theoretical physicist David ...

You will never be able to prove every mathematical truth. For me, this incompleteness theorem, discovered by Kurt Gödel, is one of the most incredible results in mathematics. It may not surprise ...

Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Sitting in the front row of a "General Chemistry" class at McCosh last fall, tracking questions and taking notes as earnestly as any undergraduate, Ana Mostafavi was a reassuring fixture in one of the ...

Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...

Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar and wind power will replace our need for oil. But that’s absurd. Here is the rest of my list of “inconvenient facts” about ...

Embark on a versatile background in the principles of physics, applied mathematics, computer skills and electronic equipment with our distinguished faculty, participate in clubs and consult with ...

Actuarial Science student Olivia Suarez is turning her love of numbers into a way to help people while strengthening the ...

It won't be long before Colorado State University Pueblo students are not able to major or minor in physics.

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...