A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations without using radicals or irrational numbers. The method developed by ...

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Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

In the physical world, objects often push each other apart in an orderly way. Think of the symmetric designs formed by iron filings under the influence of a magnetic field, or the even spacing of ...

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...

Growth and change in technology have brought a boom in the availability of data and the need for people to shape technologies. Growing areas like machine learning require expertise in programming, ...

For her pioneering work in computer science, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D. has been dubbed the “queen of code” by her biographers. Yet, beneath that crown was the brain of a mathematician, ...

In the pursuit of the extraordinary, the novel, and the unexpected, science and math at RIT blends a passion for research, the practical application of theory, and the active pursuit of new ...

The Dr Emmanuel Attah Kumah Amponsah, who is a Senior Lecturer and a head of Department of Accounting, Banking and Finance at the Ghana Communication Technology University, Accra, sponsored Maths and ...