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.

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 ...

Gut instinct for numbers works in animals, too. March 16, 2014— -- Find algebra difficult? Well, think about this: Scientists find that even 5-year-old kids can do it. Now do you feel better?

At the chalkboard on the left, Justin Brereton was rushing through the equation as if a bomb were ... has three patents and another won a national math competition. It’s hard to stand out.’’ ...

Governed by a highly symmetric cubic equation, the Clebsch was selected ... The models were part of a program to make algebra palpable. It's one thing to check that the derivatives of a function ...

Instead, she texted back to Ms. Pulido Oakley: “LOL. That’s not math.” For mathematicians, equations like this one — something that looks like what you learned in school, but which has ...