Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. In 2012, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki claimed he had solved the abc conjecture ...

Move over, girl dinner — it's time for girl math. The latest discourse to hit the social media platform revolves around spending, consumerism and and economics, both real and imagined. In videos, ...

You pay for a latte with money from your Starbucks app, so your bank account balance doesn’t change. That means the coffee was basically free, right? This is just one example of “girl math,” a trend ...

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in ...

A recent article in The Cut that described the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses anxiety that the FX/Hulu series Fleishman is in Trouble is inducing in a certain milieu of upper-middle-class parents let ...