A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news outlets. The steep drops in math performance of incoming students, highlighted in a ...
Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...
A new undergraduate major in mathematics and computing will be offered at Georgia Tech beginning next fall. The new bachelor’s degree brings together essential elements of both mathematics and ...
The consortium running the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission has published the most extensive simulation of the cosmos to date. The modeling was based on algorithms developed by UZH ...
Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...
There’s a rather beautiful algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two positive integers. For example, the greatest common divisor of 120 and 105 is 15. It’s clear that 15 is a divisor of ...
Abstract: The story behind the Euclidean algorithm and its relationship to the solution of the Diophantine equation is examined in this article. The Euclidean algorithm appears in Proposition 2 in ...
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 14 faculty members, including one full professor and 13 assistant professors. A. Carla Staver, in ecology and evolutionary ...
The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow ...
Euclid’s Elements of geometry, published in London in 1661. Credit: University of Glasgow Library, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Euclid has been a monumental figure in the field of mathematics for centuries ...