Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Blending algebra and geometry courses can give students more room in their schedules to take other courses like data science or statistics, concepts that are very present in people’s everyday lives.

In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber ...

The planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and technological applications. Or so it was thought, because careful calculation by Kobe ...

What Albert Einstein was to 20th-century physics, Alexander Grothendieck was to 20th-century mathematics. He is much less well known because math gets technical even more quickly than physics does.

Nearly a dozen school districts across California are being recognized for their significant improvements in both reading and math compared to their peers. It comes as the state lags behind others in ...

Arizona’s budget debate is stuck in a place that no longer reflects reality. For years, state lawmakers have treated tax cuts as a default strategy, arguing that they will magically produce growth, ...

Note: MathJax code development is performed in the MathJax-src repository. This repository holds the packaged version of MathJax, along with the main issue tracker for MathJax bugs. MathJax is an open ...

In July 2020, 4chan’s video-game discussion board looked much like the rest of the notorious online forum. There were elaborate, libidinal fantasies involving “whores” and “dragon cum,” and comments ...

There’s an interesting trend that the Dexter Lawrence II situation illuminates which might be useful for everyone tracking contract disputes going forward: These fights are happening more and more ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...