Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...

The symbols we use every day have fascinating and surprisingly recent origins, explains author Joseph Mazur in his new book A few years ago friends and I were talking about the origins of written ...

Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language ...

War in Europe is a staple topic in the study of history, but there’s one major conflict most history books won’t teach you: the battle of the equal sign, =. These two parallel lines were, in fact, the ...

Before the 16th century, most math equations were written as metered verse. Thank god for graphic-design-inclined mathematicians.

I make short, to-the-point online math tutorials. I struggled with math growing up and have been able to use those ...

Excerpted with permission from Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark. Available from Random House/Knopf. Copyright ...

South Dakota's proposed math standards are sparking debate, with critics saying they're too simple and lack guidance.