In 1915, the Mathematical Association of America formed to encourage advanced mathematics teaching in the United States. Members received a journal called The American Mathematical Monthly and ...

Surprisingly, mathematics and science are similar in challenging a fundamental truth: That there exist things that are ...

Those brightly colored building blocks and geometric shapes you played with when you were a toddler may have more meaning than you realized. If you take those same objects and assign a value, they ...

Mathematics is an important aspect of learning. While most despise studying numbers and theorems, mathematics is—as some have poetically put it—the language of the universe. An understanding of ...

Emily Riehl thinks hard about objects that don't exist in the material world yet mysteriously seem to underlie many things that do. These objects have no concrete existence of their own, but they do ...

When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...