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You will never be able to prove every mathematical truth. For me, this incompleteness theorem, discovered by Kurt Gödel, is one of the most incredible results in mathematics. It may not surprise ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Sitting in the front row of a "General Chemistry" class at McCosh last fall, tracking questions and taking notes as earnestly as any undergraduate, Ana Mostafavi was a reassuring fixture in one of the ...

Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole simulations, legendary Indian ...

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Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar and wind power will replace our need for oil. But that’s absurd. Here is the rest of my list of “inconvenient facts” about ...

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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Alabama high schoolers can get a head-start in their careers for free through a new interdisciplinary program at the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science. According to a ...

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...