Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In this recasting, mathematics isn’t just about solving problems, but about figuring ...

Math, as author and University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg writes, may not be the most readily accessible subject in school. When faced with a complex equation a student may ask, “When am ...

Stewart (Significant Figures), an emeritus mathematics professor at Warwick University, delves into the mysteries of probability and statistics in this fascinating look at chaos theory and the ...

While mathematics in architecture has historically referenced notions of order, proportion, and ideal form, the discipline of mathematics itself has shifted to encompass uncertainty, incompleteness, ...