Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

When South Dakota Mines Professor Emeritus Donald Teets, D.A., set out to understand contradictory claims in two calculus ...

But there is a strong push for Indian Knowledge Systems, as evident from the addition of courses on Kala Ganana (traditional Indian time keeping), Bharatiya Bijganit (Indian algebra), Shulva Sutra ...

This article offers a social and geographical network analysis of all attested works, authors, and practitioners in the mathematical sciences in China over the period of disunion and reunification ...

In the oldest municipal observatory in Iowa, a crowd gathers every Friday at 8 p.m. to learn about astronomy, history and ...

Mathematics education in India must stay strongly focused on areas that directly contribute to employability, research ...

Few figures shine as brightly as Galileo Galilei, an Italian philosopher whose contributions to astronomy revolutionized the understanding of the stars. "Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played ...

I’m a zero at mental arithmetic. It’s true—I struggle with this skill—but I want to focus on the phrase itself. In our language, we often equate zero with something negative. But zero is the only real ...

March 14 — a day you’re more likely than most others to eat — or throw — a pie and get a reduced price on your pizza. It’s all in celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and ...

Have you ever wondered about the remarkable events and figures that have shaped our world? While you might be familiar with some historical highlights, there's always more to discover—especially from ...