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The Grammy winner is currently on the India leg of his Mathematics Tour

As American schools grapple with the challenge of increasing academic rigor while honoring cultural diversity, one educator has managed to do both—with measurable, replicable success.

Thirteen years before any other woman joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics – or the NACA, NASA’s predecessor – in a technical role, a young lab assistant named Pearl Young was making waves in the agency. Her legacy as an outspoken and persistent advocate for herself and her team…

It’s that time of year again … and we’ve invited 30 of our writers, from fields as disparate as wildlife ecology and mathematics to literature and politics, to share their best books of of 2024. Of course, best books lists are subjective, relying on what people have read and remembered.…

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago.

After more than a week of uncertainty, we now know the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) results. Not for Victoria’s Year 12 students who sat the exams, but the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority responsible for running them. And the results are not good.

David, 27, a mathematics PhD student meets Eva, 27, a vet

At the beginning of my third year at university studying mathematics, I spotted an announcement. A visiting professor from Canada would be giving a mini-course of ten lectures on a subject called complex dynamics.

It’s a big year in America – for wildlife as well as for politics. I’m talking about periodical cicadas.