Studying late into the night between hectic workdays, a doctoral dropout has managed to decipher one of mathematics’ most ...

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“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 ...

A.I. is just as much a challenge to numeracy — our knowledge and ability to use mathematics and reason quantitatively — as it ...

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.

Study the language by which the book of the universe can be read. Physicists use the language of mathematics to “read” matter and energy. Musicians use it to “read” rhythm and harmony. Statisticians ...

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 ...

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 ...