COMMENTARY--If anything can be said to have a bright future today, it's complexity. The tools, systems and infrastructures that make the world go round are increasingly intricate and interdependent.

Algebra is the discipline of pure mathematics that is concerned with the study of the abstract properties of a set, once this is endowed with one or more operations that respect certain rules (axioms) ...

If you thought writing calculations to describe three-dimensional objects in math class was hard, consider doing the same for one with 248 dimensions. Mathematicians call such an object E8 (pronounced ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Should all students take Algebra 2? Florida seemed to say “no” this spring with the passage of a law striking it from graduation requirements. Texas said much the same in legislation Republican Gov.

Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation.

Carol J.V. Fisher has a doctorate in mathematics. She is finishing her ninth year at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Mass., and will move to Lenox (Mass.) Memorial Middle and High School in ...

THE appearance of this book marks another stage in the improvement which is at last being effected in English treatises on elementary algebra. How different it is from the old-fashioned text-book will ...