“The nail and hammer are fundamental to the manufacture of chairs, tables, stools, cabinets, and other varied items. So are certain ‘Mathematical Formulas or Relationships’ to the solution of diverse ...

When students begin to see themselves as math thinkers, they engage actively, explore creatively, and feel more motivated.

What happens when things combine? This question lies at the heart of the Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality (BBL), a mathematical relation widely applied across many fields of mathematics, science and ...

The four Overby siblings have math stars as bookends: My older sister, the former high school mathematics teacher; my younger brother, the civil engineer. Ten years of age separate those two, but part ...

Just as how fast your car moves depends on how well your wheels grip the road, the speed at which a cell moves depends on how well it attaches to the surface it moves on. Deciphering the specific ...

For some people, all math problems are difficult. But for computer scientists, most math problems are easy. The computer does all the work. Sometimes, though, problems come along that even computers ...

Early in his new book, physics historian Graham Farmelo quotes Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J.: “We can eavesdrop on nature not ...