Math, as author and University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg writes, may not be the most readily accessible subject in school. When faced with a complex equation a student may ask, “When am ...

Parents who are uneasy about their own math skills often worry about how best to teach the subject to their kids. Well ... there's an app for that. Tons of them, in fact. And a study published today ...

This is episode one of a three-part series. You can listen to part two here and part three here. [CLIP: Wind howls] Rachel Feltman: When Tom Crawford climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and stood 5,895 meters ...

India’s relationship with mathematics has shaped the very framework of global science. The formalization of zero gave civilization a new way to think about the infinite and the void. Centuries later, ...

“I count, therefore I count,” runs the slogan in one of the posters designed for the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) scheduled to be held during August 19-27 at Hyderabad. It is as ...

I remember watching my 3-year-old niece, Avi, try to organize her toy cars. She wasn't counting them yet, but she would say, “This one goes near the red one,” and “I want more cars here!” At the time, ...