The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

The typical college student might balk at the idea of frequent quizzes that count toward his grade. But talk to students in the math professor M. Vali Siadat’s classes, and you’re likely to hear ...

New York took steps to move toward the “science of reading” in early January. And New York City’s NYC Reads initiative, which has required classrooms in the Big Apple to select from three curricula ...

The aim of the Northwestern Student Chapter of SIAM is to provide a platform for students involved in science to interact with one another. SIAM ESAM graduate students form the core of Northwestern's ...

The Math 8806-8807 sequence will cover the following topics: Group Theory (Group actions, Sylow, Nilpotent/Solvable, simple groups, Jordan-Holder series, presentations); commutative algebra ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

Asian-American students outperform other racial or ethnic groups in math and science courses, according to a new study of 367 10th grade students in the Philadelphia area. The study, published in ...

We are one of the largest and oldest discrete math groups in Canada. Our group has a wide variety of expertise in pure and applied discrete math and combinatorics. Our research themes include ...