Perhaps the happiest of Stanford’s new captives is Yale’s Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights ...

Cooks use math to make beautiful food all the time: Slicing eight perfect pieces of pie or doubling a recipe requires basic knowledge of fractions, for example. But how many cooks think about using ...

Young children can perform certain kinds of math operations before ever receiving any kind formal math training, a new study reports. The finding suggests children have an inborn intuition about math ...

It seems to be the worst kept secret in our schools. Our kids don’t “get” math. At elementary school, children are swarmed by a variety of so-called math concepts, overloading their brains with a ...

A belated thank you for your service, Mr. Davis. You did one heck of a job. You took the most boring class in high school for many students — math — and made it come alive. You did it with comedy and ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes. In ...