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.

You’re a seventh-grade girl, and in all probability you would give your Swatch to know what that guy who sits across the aisle from you — the one with the rad jams (translation: nice looking shorts) — ...

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STEM: science, technology, engineering, and of course, mathematics. It’s time for math to take centerstage. When most people talk STEM, they’re likely focused on S-T-E. If math is at all mentioned, it ...

Parents teach young children to love books by reading to them, often at bedtime. Laura and John Overdeck love math, so they started giving their kids a word problem to solve each night before tucking ...

A LITTLE BOY, NO OLDER THAN 8, almost leaps out of his chair, screaming, “It’s so easy! It’s so easy!” Standing at the front of his classroom, Robert Kaplan, a teacher and cofounder of the Math Circle ...

Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Elizabeth Green charts the pedigree of our long national struggle to be good at math. The new math of the ‘60s, the new new math of the ‘80s and today’s Common ...