When students begin to study calculus, equations and their graphs are mostly drawn on a “flat” plane. It’s when students proceed to advanced calculus that they find paper and pencil inadequate. A new ...

On a humid 1969 September night in Texas, a little boy sat in the stands of a high school football game, happily supporting his hometown team. As he watched, the opposition's running back broke free, ...

Back in 1948, the journal Physical Review published a paper entitled “Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics” by a young physicist named R.P. Feynman at Cornell University. The paper described ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Why is mathematics so complicated? It’s a question many students will ask while grappling with a particularly complex calculus problem — and their teachers will probably echo while setting or marking ...

We’ve all got different skill sets, and some of ours simply don’t include math. Google’s latest Search update includes a helpful new tool for folks in that category. Next time a complex equation ...