PDFs with accessible mathematics have reached a practical turning point. For the first time, complex equations embedded in PDF documents can be navigated, spoken, and rendered in braille by assistive ...

Friedli, S. and Velenik, Y. Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems: A Concrete Mathematical Introduction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-107-18482-4 DOI: ...

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Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Alabama was the only state to earn a "Strong" rating its math education in a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality released Tuesday. The state, which has historically leaned red, ...

A student takes a math class to study for the STAAR state standardized tests in this archive photo. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram file photo Are you an accountant who plugs functions into spreadsheets to ...

Mathematicians excel at handling complexity and uncertainty. Mathematical reasoning strategies aren't just useful for dilemmas involving numbers. We can apply math mindsets to improve our approach to ...

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits. It ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...