Model math standards produced by conservative education advocates helped spark a battle in South Dakota that could spread to other states.
Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...
South Dakota's proposed math standards are sparking debate, with critics saying they're too simple and lack guidance.
Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...
This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of ...
Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.
Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and ...
Abstract: We consider the signal detection problem in amplified optical transmission systems as a statistical hypothesis testing procedure, and we show that the detected signal has a well-known ...