“In the days of Galileo and Newton, it wasn't unreasonable to regard mathematics as the language of the Great Book of Nature,” Maddy explained in an email interview with Salon. “But over the ...

While artificial intelligence has made remarkable gains in mathematics, its well-chronicled shortcomings in the subject ...

A Chinese engineer has astounded mathematicians by decoding the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT), a complex theory ...

But at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics this week, math educators said the subject has its own language, too—and knowing how to speak it is critical to success. In presentations ...

In “The Language of Mathematics,” Raúl Rojas gives us a survey, from the Greek cross (for the arithmetic operation of addition) to the earliest use of the concept of zero.

But in her sophomore year, her calculus professor changed her mind. Mathematics, she learned, was the language that all the sciences are written in. “There’s something deeper out there than what’s in ...

Math isn’t just about numbers. It’s about language, too. Many math tasks involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These language demands can be particularly challenging for students whose ...