Plans to address mathematically challenged Minnesota students could be offered early in 2009. A six-member, bipartisan task force is expected to meet later this month to look at ways to improve the ...

MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'At the heart of the mathematical world lie numbers 'They give us the power to describe, 'measure and count everything in the universe. MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'But numbers aren't always ...

The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the ...

March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written as 3/14, matches the start of the decimal expansion 3.14159… ...

Math conferences don’t usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta. Su, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College in California and the outgoing president of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Perfection is an unattainable quest for which we all strive. But for a ...

A detail of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal named after Benoit Mandelbrot, the French mathematician who investigated it in the 1970s. If you were to zoom in at any point on the intricate, wiggly line, ...