Scientific American spoke to Rojas about this history, the deeply engaging humanity of mathematics and the egos at play in defining the mathematical language we take for granted today.

Larry Cook was just 3 years old when President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963, but despite his young age, Cook, now 65, remembers how that event affected his ...

The other is the great American realist Edward Hopper (1882-1967), whose painting Chop Suey (1929) sold for $91.9 million at Christie’s in 2018, a record for a historical American painting.

In a conversation with The Culture Report team, she helped break down some of the layers within this performance to understand the symbolism and historical ... of a capitalist American system ...