Teacher education often receives criticism for being too theoretical. Many students lack more training in how to teach in practice when they enter schools. They now receive this at the University of ...

What is the most important number in the entirety of mathematics? Ok, that’s a pretty silly question – out of infinite possibilities, how could you possibly choose? I suppose a big hitter like 2 or 10 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Last week, ABC7 Chicago's Rob Elgas and Mark Rivera revisited their old high school in Crystal Lake. Now, Cheryl Burton is going back to school. On this Feel Good Friday, Burton is ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA - AUGUST 24: Harrison Burton, driver of the #21 DEX Imaging Ford, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International ...

Math For All in Boulder took place on April 5th 2025 at the Williams Village Center in the CU Boulder campus. The conference had 75 participants from over 20 different universities and colleges which ...

Years before becoming a hell-raising Hollywood icon, Richard Burton was hard-up miner's son Richie Jenkins — Marc Evans' sentimentalized but enjoyable biopic shows what's in a name change. Indeed, for ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...

Originally defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, pi — written as the Greek letter π — appears throughout mathematics, including in areas that are completely ...