Today, when NCERT textbooks assert that Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya developed algebra independently and before Arab ...
Earth’s Rotation Day, observed on January 8, marks Léon Foucault’s 1851 pendulum experiment proving Earth’s rotation. Know ...
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...
A study published in ECNU Review of Education explores how cultural contexts shape pre-service teachers’ noticing of students’ mathematical thinking. Using a cartoon-based vignette on fraction errors, ...
What’s more, doing maths is often a collaborative endeavour – and can be a great source of fun and fulfilment when people work together on problems. Which brings me to these festive-themed puzzles, ...
American-German mathematician Don Bernard Zagier, best known for his work with number theory, especially the theory of modular forms. [Photo for China Daily] China is clearly one of the strongest ...
This community column is sponsored by Heartland Credit Union. Visit them at area branches and online at https://www.hcu.org/ This Sunday Christians celebrate ...
Talia Ringer is in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA. Read the paper: Olympiad-level formal mathematical ...
A Möbius strip made with paper and adhesive tape. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Imagine holding a strip of paper. You give it a half-twist and then tape its ends together. The shape you’re now holding is ...
Imagine holding a strip of paper. You give it a half-twist and then tape its ends together. The shape you’re now holding is the ticket to a world where surfaces have only one side and boundaries blur ...