Mathematics News

Millions of years of evolution have molded our eyes into highly sensitive optical detectors, surpassing even many human-made devices.

Philip Jenkins, a seventh and eighth grade mathematics teacher at B.B. Comer Memorial High School, assists Comer students with their worm farm project.

Are instrumental variables estimates really superior to ordinary least squares ? Most high-status empirical economists seem to think so.

Just days before the 2012-13 Champions League final on May 25, FIFA 13 's Ultimate Team mode is ready to reveal its Bundesliga Team of the Season cards.

The study, a collaboration between researchers at U-M and the universities of Illinois and Florida, looks deeper into the controversial argument over whether MLB umpires discriminate by calling more strikes for pitchers of the same race.

Guidelines for implementing the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education that are developed by the Instructional Quality Commission.

When a solar flare filled with charged particles erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics.

A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.

It is rare, but not inconceivable, to encounter a tropical, underwater paradise in an art gallery in Baltimore.

Xiao-Tong Yuan, Shuicheng Yan, "Forward Basis Selection for Pursuing Sparse Representations Over a Dictionary," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol.

Quantitative market research is the use of numerical analysis to provide information useful to businesses.

For a short time, there are free Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry texts available through the Montrose High School .

It stirs up mixed feelings to lament that boys are "falling behind" in high school and college - since it can give short shrift to the tremendous progress made by females in academic pursuits in recent decades.

New research has proved that prime numbers don't just disappear as numbers get larger - instead, there is an infinite number of prime numbers separated by a distance of at most 70 million.

There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, but in 2001 the Norwegian government established a million-dollar Abel Prize, which is widely considered as an equivalent of the Nobel for mathematicians.

Few Montgomery County Public Schools students enrolled in high school math courses made high marks on final exams last semester, data released by the school district last week showed.

A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics, and materials.

The MAA Committee on Early Career Mathematicians announces the ECM Mentoring Network.

Shapeways interviews the amazing Bathsheba Grossman, a sculptor who creates mathematics-inspired 3D printed objects that can be bought on the Shapeways store .

A "twin prime" is a pair of prime numbers that differ by two. For example, 11 and 13, or 857 and 859.