“This is really a drastic action,” said Bryna Kra, president of the American Mathematical Society and an endowed math professor at Northwestern University, also an R-1. Kra further noted that WVU’s Ph ...

Numbers game: Is math the language of nature or just a human construct? Scientists still debate whether our mathematical models of the universe objectively exist ...

As Gisin sees it, the problem all along has been mathematical. Gisin argues that time in general and the time we call the present are easily expressed in a century-old mathematical language called ...

Several of its examples appeared in a draft of the California math framework, a guidance document Boaler co-authored about how math should be taught in K-12 schools.

Everyday language, as early lexicographers most likely found, is an imperfect medium to transfer this precision. Learning the specialized vocabulary of math is one of the big challenges for ...