Artificial intelligence is a game changer across many fields these days and mathematics is no exception. Yet, the rapid ...

The decision to place Nowak on leave comes amid widening fallout at Harvard, including the resignation of former university president and economist Larry Summers from his professorship.Summers, who ...

Taback, the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, was announcing the visit of John Urschel to campus. Formerly an offensive lineman with the Baltimore Ravens, Urschel played three seasons in the ...

Harvard math professor Martin Nowak — once dubbed Jeffrey Epstein’s “inside man” at the university — has been put on leave after college bosses learned “new information” about his links to the ...

Prof. Joseph “Joe” Halpern, computer science, died on Friday at age 72 in Ithaca following a battle with cancer. At Cornell, Halpern taught several courses in computer science and mathematics, and ...

In December 2025, a group of researchers from around the world, including UC Berkeley math professor Nikhil Srivastava, gathered inside the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.

When Alfred University Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didn’t immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of stitches ...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with Davidson College professor Tim Chartier who says you're 20,000 times more likely to get hit by lightning than win Wednesday’s $1.7B Powerball jackpot. Amy Coney ...

Many students walk into their first year of college calculus with nervous anticipation, bracing for a whirlwind of equations, integrals and derivatives. However, for students taking calculus with ...

Konstantinos Mamis, a UW assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, presents at the 13th Annual Integrated Mathematical Oncology Workshop at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. Mamis was part ...

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It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...