Chris Rogers, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was recently awarded a grant by the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the National Science Foundation. The work ...

The building blocks of mathematical understanding start to form very early in life, as do the fundamentals of reading, but experts say that informal “math through play” approaches alone don’t add up ...

Nearly every scientific and engineering field needs applied math to make advances. Applied mathematicians team up with all types of experimentalists to accelerate research by predicting unexpected ...

There are prodigies -- children who have an inexplicable, innate ability to perform virtuoso mental, artistic or physical feats -- but for the vast majority of human beings, acquiring skills is a more ...

Programmers normally want to minimize the time their code takes to execute. But in 1962, the Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó posed the opposite problem. He asked: How long can a simple computer ...