Randolph Grace receives funding from the Marsden Fund, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s ...
Barbie caught a lot of flack back in the ’90s for declaring, “Math class is tough!” Today we find ourselves in the disorienting position of defending her. We recently got a note from an anonymous ...
In the early years of the Republic, arithmetic was generally taught to teenaged boys planning careers in commerce, often by private tutors. With the advent of free common or elementary schools ...
The 30-year-old math sensation Peter Scholze is now one of the youngest Fields medalists for “the revolution that he launched in arithmetic geometry.” In the run-up to the presentation of the Fields ...
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