Supporters say integrated math opens doors to a variety of STEM pathways in high school. The tradeoff? It may leave some ...

What if I told you that your consciousness—your very sense of self, your thoughts, perceptions, and imagination—could be explained by mathematics? It might sound far-fetched, but cutting-edge research ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...

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