Chalkboard calculations ... The quandaries of theoretical math are far more difficult than solving for x or balancing the quadratic equation. Some mathematicians try to find new universal truths ...

Math equations can feel like a banal abstraction ... but they vanish as soon as the chalkboard is erased," Keenan Crane, an assistant professor of computer science and robotics, said in a prepared ...

Even when it is inscrutable, math is beautiful ... she discovered how diverse their chalkboard styles are. “Some were very clean and neat and very carefully considered,” she recalls.