In Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs and the Rise of Modern Mathematics ... century mathematics was concerned primarily with explaining the concrete, observable realities of the world.

We tend to have a pretty flush crew coming in every year. When you get beyond the basics of addition and subtraction, math seems to suffer from a dissociation with real world application. I've heard ...

Math. It's one of those things that is easy ... remarkable mathematicians whose work continues to help shape our modern world, sometimes hundreds of years after their death. Enjoy!

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ... Noether continued her pursuit of advanced mathematics, travelling to the “[world ...

Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in Europe, which revolutionized not only mathematics but commerce ...