Women have been studying mathematics for thousands of years — Hypatia was teaching in Alexandria in the fourth or fifth century AD — but the discipline has struggled to shake the male stereotype. In ...

One of the landmarks of Kyoto, the home of Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, is the Kamo River. At certain points, there are stepping stones that allow residents to cross the river away from ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RSA® Conference, the world’s leading information security conferences and expositions, today announced that two world-renowned cryptographers, Professor Joan Daemen and ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Women earn 60 percent of baccalaureate degrees and 46 percent of doctoral degrees, excluding ...

President Obama’s 2014 budget request includes programs for research, development, and education in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. He has called for 100,000 new STEM ...

The relationship between the cognitive style variable of field dependence/independence and instructional treatments was investigated using high or low guidance in a unit on networks. The 97 ...

The interaction of two aptitude variables, field independence and general reasoning, with treatments that differed in sequence of instruction was investigated using either an inductive or deductive ...