The mathematics program at William & Mary allows you to design a major based on your own interests and career goals. You will be prepared for employment and for further study of mathematical sciences ...

The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table. From a few fragments out of a collection of 23-century-old bamboo strips, historians have pieced together what they say is ...

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician ...

One hundred fifty years after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his system for neatly arranging the elements, the periodic table it gave birth to hangs in every chemistry classroom in the ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...