(THE REPORTER) — Now that everyone has mini-supercomputers that pretend to be phones in their pockets, it can be challenging to get young people to learn problem-solving skills that do not involve ...

Doha: Birla Public School (BPS) has been ranked among top five in Infinity Math Competition. In the recently concluded Infinity Math Competition 2024-25 conducted by Aditya Birla World Academy, Mumbai ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

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 ...

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Last week, my first grader came home with thoughts about math (I love it when she does that!) She said that, since one hundred plus ten was “one hundred and ten”, that, therefore, infinity plus ten ...

Hardly anyone saw the film The Man Who Knew Infinity in theaters, at least in American theaters. It was well-received in India and will probably cause us to see more UK/India crossover films such as ...

The Hearst Movie & A Martini group responded to “The Man Who Knew Infinity” much more favorably than most of the critics did. The would-be prestige hit about an Indian mathematics genius (Dev Patel), ...