Few disciplines are as polarizing as math. Everyone seems to have an opinion about it, and those opinions usually veer toward love or hate. A new book argues that part of the problem is how we learn ...

Michael Freedman’s momentous 1981 proof of the four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture was on the verge of being lost. The editors of a new book are trying to save it. One of the most important pieces of ...

EVERETT — As a kid he drew cartoons on his math papers. Now he draws math in his cartoons. What’s up with that? “I Hate Math” is a new comic book by Ian Brown, 37, a third grade teacher at Challenger ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Is Math Real? by Eugenia Cheng. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email ...

Ian Stewart is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has written over 80 books, mainly popular mathematics, and has won three gold medals for ...

A new book about math and drag queen performances seeks to educate readers on both subjects, with its author saying the book details how the two overlap. Kynes Santos, a drag queen himself, discussed ...

NEWTOWN -- Chuck Paulsen has an irreverent, funny way of cajoling people to talk and read about something that even in many college-educated circles can be a source of anxiety: math. The retired ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After rejecting 54 math books from the coming school year’s approved texts, based on what it called “publisher’s attempts to indoctrinate students,” the Florida Department of ...