His book, “Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest From Zero to Infinity,” has something of the qualities of that video: bright, engaging, humorous, bold, seeking to make math ...

Understanding the meaning of "equals" in mathematics tells us a lot about both the nuance and richness in the field, but also how ideas of equality are used or misused in life ...

Prizes for the year's best books in mathematics were awarded to Ian Stewart and Tim Chartier by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) on Jan. 5 in Atlanta at the Joint Mathematics Meetings ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said over 50 math books submitted for review were "doing woke math." DeSantis blocked a record number of textbooks in April over concerns about CRT. They "took the woke ...

Math ruined my GPA. But a new book rekindled my fascination with numbers. In ‘Once Upon a Prime,’ Sarah Hart takes readers on a fascinating tour of the world of numbers, finding connections ...

MR. HEPPEL's little hand-book is not a complete treatise on elementary analytical geometry as usually presented to junior students, but it is a sequel to a previous small work in the same series ...

Comment Two beguiling books show how mathematics is revolutionising our lives. Enjoy Piero Martin’s The Seven Measures of the World, stories about measurement, and explore Four Ways of Thinking ...

In her new book, “MATH-ish,” Boaler is doubling down on her approach to math with a title that seems to encourage inexactitude. She argues that approaching a problem in a “math-ish” way gives students ...