Mr. Wilkinson is the author of “A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age.” I am surprised at this late stage, in my 70s, to be thinking about God. In my ...

Mr. Wilkinson is the author of “A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age.” As a boy in the first weeks of algebra class, I felt confused and then I went sort ...

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While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

In this muddled offering, Acheson (The Wonder Book of Geometry), an emeritus fellow at the University of Oxford, comes up short in attempting to demonstrate the marvelous qualities of mathematics. He ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. I discovered recently that my calculus students do not know the meaning of the word “quorum.” Since a course in ...

The doctoral degree in Mathematics at Drexel features research opportunities in many areas of both pure and applied mathematics. Departmental research interests include: mathematical biology, applied ...