Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to Alan Becker and the mind-bending visuals of Animation vs. Geometry. This video breaks down the ...

Wei Ho, the first director of the Women and Mathematics program at the Institute for Advanced Study, combines algebra and geometry in her work on an ancient class of curves. Like many people who would ...

Sam Raskin in a still from the video “The Geometric Langlands Conjecture”. Credit: Institute for Advanced Study / Youtube Sam Raskin, a mathematician and professor at Yale University, has achieved a ...

A Tufts University professor has a proposal to combat gerrymandering: give more geometry experts a day in court. Moon Duchin is an associate professor of math and director of the Science, Technology ...

Next year, Nashville public schools will begin the transition from teaching Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II to teaching integrated math courses, which weave together concepts from each discipline.

So how to best describe Americans’ relationship with math? The answer is, well, a lot like multivariable calculus: It’s complicated. A national Gallup study reveals that more than 90% of American ...