There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.

Spreadsheets are still useful, but if you do a lot of work with numbers, you'll realize that they have limitations.

This fall, the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences launched a new master’s of science graduate program in ...

I recently attended "Math Night" at my kid's school, where teachers introduced the new approach to math that's embedded in the Common Core, and I'll be honest: It's a little awkward to get a lesson in ...

Last year, I started writing about my experiences taking courses on machine learning and artificial intelligence. One of the big, unexpected problems I ran into was calculus and linear algebra. I've ...

As is its custom, The MathWorks has announced a new release that encompasses all of its products. Of these, the two best known are MatLab, the flagship mathematical and technical-computing package, ...

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