In the early 1970s, astronauts drove a lunar rover — a dune buggy, of sorts — bouncing around on the moon on short treks. It holds an interest for Stephen Montgomery-Smith, a math professor at the ...
A Vanderbilt professor delivered a lecture earlier this month at a major mathematician meeting that described college math education as "white" and "cisheteropatriarchal." Luis Leyva, assistant ...
David Lomen, a former UA professor in mathematics, died on Nov. 15 after a three-year fight with cancer. In his memory, his family has established the David Lomen Endowed Memorial Fund, an endowment ...
Mathematicians say knots cannot exist in four-dimensional space because the extra dimension allows a rope to move around itself and untangle, revealing surprising insights into geometry and topology.
A Stanford math professor issued a stark warning Thursday on California's new math curriculum, arguing the push for "equity" could backfire academically as students continue to reel from post-pandemic ...
In 2019, the Nevada System of Higher Education decided that students who needed remedial math instruction could receive it at the same time they were taking college-level math courses instead of ...
David Savitt, associate professor in the department of mathematics, has always had a special connection with math. “I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in math,” Savitt said. Savitt said ...