This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

In this video I will show you how to complete the square by working through 28 different examples. We will focus on basic completing the square problems when a=1. I make short, to-the-point online ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

In this video I show you how to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions by working through 52 different examples. I make short, to-the-point online math tutorials. I struggled with math growing ...

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...

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 ...

In myasthenia gravis, complement plays a big role in what happens to the muscle end of the neuromuscular junction, explains Miriam Freimer, MD, an author on 5 abstracts presented at the recent 15th ...