Women told that female under-achievement in mathematics is due to genetic factors perform much worse on maths tests than those told that social factors are responsible.
A reclusive Russian won the math world's highest honor Tuesday for solving a problem that has stumped some of the discipline's greatest minds for a century — but he refused the award.
Ensuring a free vote is a matter for the law. Making elections fair is more a matter for mathematicians. They have been studying voting systems for hundreds of years, looking for sources of bias that distort the value of individual votes, and ways to avoid them.
It's always been interesting (to me at least) to see how ancient languages and script are translated, especially when there isn't a "Rosetta Stone" so to speak.
Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia - and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.
Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia - and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.
We start with a seemingly trivial toy model. A model that strips entropic attraction to its barest essentials. You might feel this Mickey Mouse model can impossibly have any bearing on the problem of entropic gravity.
A book charting the frontier between handicrafts and geometry on Friday won Britain's quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year's oddest book title.
In 1929, the superintendent of schools in Ithaca, New York, sent out a challenge to his colleagues in other cities.
If one measured the influence of a mathematician by the number of mathematical ideas that bear their name then John Tate would be a clear winner.
An American professor at the University of Texas at Austin has won the 6 million kroner ($1 million) Abel Prize for mathematics.
A Russian awarded $1million (£666,000) for solving one of the most intractable problems in mathematics said yesterday that he does not want the money.
"Seven years ago, a reclusive Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman, startled the scientific world by claiming to solve one of the most famous and intractable problems in mathematics, called the Poincaré conjecture, and then disappearing back into St. Petersburg. '
When and where, in the history of science, do our greatest scientists tell us that one should live their lives believing only in that which can be proven? Who of them has said that it is more 'intelligent' to accept nothing in life but modern western scientific proof?
President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul education standards championed by his predecessor aims to broaden the focus beyond math and reading to "a well-rounded education," Education Secretary Arne Duncan says.
The first numbers that come to mind when thinking about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland might be how much money the movie is raking in at the box office.
I have this poster hanging in my office and have for the past 12 years. I find it useful to meditate on, and I cannot believe the amount of research that was done to create this image. It's too good not to share, and I'm curious what others think of it.
When it comes to mathematics Hervey Bay student David Andersen is in a class of his own and on top of the world. The 15-year-old Fraser Coast Anglican College student is a dual world champion after retaining the World Maths Day title he won last year.
Greek composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) first-hand experience with extreme violence in the streets of Athens and the fearsome scars that set him apart in the chic, brainy world of postwar avant-garde music. Xenakis is is more than cerebral artist.
Former U.S. Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, a liberal Republican from Maryland who championed civil rights and protection of the Chesapeake Bay during his 26 years in Washington, has died. He was 87.
Female elementary school teachers who are concerned about their own math skills could be passing that along to the little girls they teach, says a new study of first- and second-graders.
Some say that there is no scientific proof of links between global warming and specific regional effects. Not too many years ago tobacco industry officials were saying that there was no scientific proof of links between cigarettes and lung cancer or heart disease.
If the data cited by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) commission report is correct, the United States and Germany are the only two nations in the world where this holds true.
' "This meta-analysis shows us that while the quality of instruction and curriculum affects children's learning, so do the value that schools, teachers and families place on girls' learning math.
BRITISH researchers have developed a guaranteed method of pulling Christmas crackers, but it's not for the mathematically challenged.
British researchers say they have developed a guaranteed method of pulling Christmas crackers, but it's not for the mathematically challenged.