This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet "beautiful" is a word that I and ...

Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a beautiful landscape painting or a piano sonata. Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical ...

Nearly a dozen high school and college students spent a month on Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus this summer, enrolled in a novel course designed to expose them to concepts in mathematics ...

April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month—a time to celebrate teaching math, which can be, as experts say, a “hard sell.” I spoke with Sean Nank, a professor of teaching and learning at the ...

Prints from the portfolio Concinnitas (2014), a collaboration between Dan Rockmore, professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College, and 10 mathematicians and physicists, with publisher Robert Feldman ...

In his recent book, "The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions," political scientist Andrew Hacker argues, among other things, that we should not require high school students to take algebra. Part of ...

Mathematicians continue to calculate, solve, and create on chalkboards, even in the digital age. A photographer captures samples of their work. Ideas explored on chalkboards—and erased and explored ...

Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a beautiful landscape painting or a piano sonata - and you don't need to be a mathematician to get it, ...