In 2014 Mura Yakerson, a college student at the time, decided to practice driving in a quiet area in the countryside near ...

Like many of the cultures it studies, the Department of History of Mathematics has had innovative leaders, a golden era and, inevitably, a fall from glory. This year could witness the end of a ...

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.

Math nerds and historians, it's time to get excited. Minds of Modern Mathematics, a new iPad app released Thursday by IBM, presents an interactive timeline of the history of mathematics and its ...

David Foster Wallace, mathematician He's long been celebrated for his fiction's grotesque hyperrealism, but few acknowledge its bold use of fractals ...

The display succeeds in giving people a sense of how mathematics has been taught in various eras of American history, according to one expert in math education and its history.

Applied Mathematics is central to science and engineering education. As early as 1901 Engineering Mathematics was taught by faculty in the College of Engineering. Engineering Mathematics was organized ...