The dumbing-down of education is all set to reach newer depths. The state government, worried by increasing cases of failure in mathematics in Std IX and Std X, has decided to give students the option ...

A small group of mathematicians and activists disrupted an annual mathematics conference this week held in Boston, Massachusetts, where they worked to stop the recruitment of mathematicians to the ...

Statistically, the most common symbol in mathematics is the equal sign, which appears in 94% of mathematical expressions. Almost 60% of statements deploy parentheses. Numbers take up only 13% of the ...