You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

It's Mathematics Awareness Month, and this year's theme is Unraveling Complex Systems. Host Scott Simon talks to Weekend Edition Math Guy Keith Devlin about how math can be a guide to understanding ...

The [Math Sorcerer] loves books. His latest acquisition is the famous Real and Complex Analysis, which is a very stout math book. How stout? Well, there are several chapters on holomorphic functions, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Simon DeDeo, a research fellow in applied mathematics and complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute, had a problem. He was collaborating on a new project analyzing 300 years’ worth of data from the ...

Math didn’t just inspire AI; it breathed life into it. It is the invisible language that allows machines to see, translate, ...

For most people the answer involves finding the nearest calculator. For 11-year-old Ethan Brown of Bethel, however, the answer -- 974,169 -- takes just a few seconds of mental effort. Ethan learned ...