Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language ...

Mathematics is the study of shape and form, of numbers and patterns, of concrete examples and abstract generalizations. As a discipline, mathematics is not easy to categorize: it's an art, a science ...

The discovery of the connection between genetics and pure mathematics highlights again how the universe is more logical and pattern based than most realise writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. One of the ...

Question: I’ve always wondered why is it mathematics is considered the “universal language” in physics and the explanation of the natural world. What is the possibility of different civilizations ...

Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from organisations to investigate teacher standards, curriculum development and the education of refugee background ...

Nearly twenty years after I graduated high school and my last calculus class, I still get that nightmare where I’m at the exam for a calculus course I somehow forgot to attend, or that I faked my way ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this topic [Kevin ...

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Saint Louis University offers undergraduate options in pure mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, as well as graduate degrees in mathematics.