We need to talk about the lack of public bathrooms and cozy coffee shops, and that prolific public artist... you know the one ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...

A new equation calculates how many fragments of each size will be produced when an object breaks. The principle could help ...

Re “Why did pickleball players leave indoor courts in Palm Beach Gardens?:” I understand that the Palm Beach Gardens’ Recreational Center renovation was extremely expensive, but originally the gyms ...

A federal court Tuesday blocked Texas from using its newly drawn congressional map in next year’s midterms, ruling that the map is likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The ruling is a major ...

To the editor: Really? In a landscape in which male politicians routinely lace their sentences with profanity like it’s punctuation, the Los Angeles Times frames a story about alleged financial ...

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Saint Louis University offers undergraduate options in pure mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, as well as graduate degrees in mathematics.

HISTORIANS of mathematics attribute the first use of the cross x as a symbol for multiplication to William Oughtred (“Clavis Mathematicae”, London, 1631). See W. W. R. Ball's “Short Account of the ...

If you want to lower your heating bill, we break down the savings of a space heater versus central heat. David lives in Brooklyn where he's spent more than a decade covering all things edible, ...