What Albert Einstein was to 20th-century physics, Alexander Grothendieck was to 20th-century mathematics. He is much less well known because math gets technical even more quickly than physics does.

Happy Pi Day! March 14 is the date that otherwise rational people celebrate this irrational number, because 3/14 contains the first three digits of pi. And hey, pi deserves a day. By definition, it’s ...

Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech and strategic finance in top universities. She has been an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor for more than ...

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3.5 Intersection of two Straight Lines. 3.6 Family of straight lines - Concurrent lines. 3.7 Condition for Concurrent Lines. 3.8 Angle between two lines. 3.9 Length of perpendicular from a point to a ...

There are some pretty nebulous concepts in mathematics that can be hard to wrap your head around, but the meaning of 'equals' was one we thought we had covered. It turns out that mathematicians ...

Consider this sequence of numbers: 5, 7, 9. Can you spot the pattern? Here’s another with the same pattern: 15, 19, 23. One more: 232, 235, 238. “Three equally spaced things,” says Raghu Meka, a ...

In this article, we discuss the embodiment of infinity as one of fundamental concepts in mathematics. In contrast to the embodiment of many other mathematical concepts, the embodiment of infinity is ...

Teachers often ask me, a math coach, what to do with “fast finishers.” Most teachers have some set of "enrichment” or “bonus“ or “challenge” tasks ready for these moments, usually puzzles or logic ...

Using “refreshingly old” tools, mathematicians resolved a 50-year-old conjecture about how to categorize important functions called modular forms, with consequences for number theory and theoretical ...

Recently, a noninformative prior distribution that is different from the Jeffreys prior was derived as an extension of Bernardo's reference prior based on the chi-square divergence. We summarize this ...