Something just wasn't adding up about the way Renee Rood and Parker Birchfield met. "She likes to say she didn't steal my math book," Parker says. "But I maintain that she stole that book." They were ...

Kyne Santos was a student at the University of Waterloo when she began her math career – and her drag career. "I was like Hannah Montana at the time, living a double life, you know, doing my math ...

The [Math Sorcerer] loves books. His latest acquisition is the famous Real and Complex Analysis, which is a very stout math book. How stout? Well, there are several chapters on holomorphic functions, ...

Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a genius!” they reply. Or ...

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

Students often ask me ``What is the best book on . . . <SUBJECT X>?" I don't always have an answer, but in certain areas of applied mathematics (especially related to fluid mechanics or scientific ...