Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...
This month, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win one of the field’s most prestigious awards, the Abel Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ...
It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...
Meet a Mathematician (MEET) is a collection of video interviews with mathematicians from various career stages and diverse backgrounds. MEET goal is to create a consistent collection of video profiles ...
What if Pi Day, perhaps the best known mathematical holiday, was actually better celebrated in the summer? Currently falling on March 14 — 3/14, in honor of the first three digits of the infamous ...
A mathematician has uncovered a way of answering some of algebra's oldest problems. University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger, has revealed a potentially game-changing ...