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 ...

After all, I know a lot about math. What many people don’t realize is that the academic subject of mathematics is not about ...

A statement can be true or false. But as Kurt Gödel demonstrated, there will always be mathematical assumptions that can ...

Dr Kolade Owolabi is a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Technology, Akure. He was adjudged the best Mathematics scientist in Nigeria by Research.com Ranking for 2022.

WHILE mathematics has always been recognized as one of the cornerstones of our educational system, we are entering an era in which an understanding of mathematics will be of even greater importance to ...

Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a beautiful landscape painting or a piano sonata. Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical ...

What is pure mathematics? What do pure mathematicians do? Why is pure mathematics important? These are questions I’m often confronted with when people discover I do pure mathematics. I always manage ...

There is no doubt that mathematics occupies a special position among the sciences and in the educational system. Partly, this is due to the fact that mathe­matics is applied to all the other sciences ...

I would lump mathematics in a similar category to language, art, music, etc. – inventions of the human mind that are highly relevant and meaningful to our species, but have no reality otherwise. It is ...