What if the famous P vs NP problem isn’t just about algorithms but about the observers trying to solve them? Research ...

Last month I attended an event marking the 20th anniversary of the National Assessment Governing Board, the independent panel that oversees the NAEP. There were a lot of good presentations, but one in ...

The "beauty of mathematics" is said to be the first time to gain by understanding mathematics deeply. Mathematics dislikes may become a little better when beauty is transmitted, but mathematicians who ...

John Mighton is a mathematician, author and founder of Jump Math. His latest book is All Things Being Equal: Why Math is the Key to a Better World. In a keynote address at the Calgary City Teachers’ ...

Math underlies many of the art pieces M.C. Escher created, because he was fascinated with the idea of depicting infinity in various ways, producing infinitely repeatable patterns known as ...