Mathematics is the basis of all science and has come a long way since humans started counting. But when did people start doing math? The answer is complicated because abstract mathematics is ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary ...

Numbers game: Is math the language of nature or just a human construct? Scientists still debate whether our mathematical models of the universe objectively exist ...

The mathematics department at Drexel University provides a foundation of abstract reasoning, applications and computing. Learn more about Drexel’s math department and the degrees we offer.

Did abstract mathematics, such as Pythagoras’s theorem, exist before the big bang? (continued) Richard Swifte Darmstadt, Germany I would lump mathematics in a similar category to language, art ...

Course and Schedule Information The Mathematics department will occasionally allow courses taken from other Boston College departments to count as electives for the mathematics major. Such courses ...

What Wilkinson and I really needed was a sympathetic voice—the testimony of one who has climbed the heights of abstract math but also has the patience to guide a newcomer.

Did abstract mathematics, such as Pythagoras’s theorem, exist before the big bang? Simon McLeish Lechlade, Gloucestershire, UK The notion of the existence of mathematical ideas is a complex one ...