When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

Jamaican students placed first in the region in 13 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects in the June 2025 examinations. The results were contained in the Caribbean Examinations ...

ASJA Girls’ College in San Fernando has secured over 15 places on the Order of Merit List for the 2025 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency ...

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) disclosed yesterday that two students from Guyana have topped the region at the 2025 May-June Caribbean Advanc-ed Proficiency Examination and Carib-bean ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

An international team of authors led by Ilka Agricola, professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg, Germany, has investigated fraudulent practices in the publication of research results in ...

The premise of Marcus du Sautoy’s Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity is that mathematics and creativitiy spring from the same well — structure. Individual numbers exist without human help.

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

RIT’s computational mathematics major emphasizes problem-solving using mathematical models to identify solutions in business, science, engineering, and more. Learn by Doing: Gain experience through an ...

Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic flame retardants from electronics wind up in some household products made ...