President Trump is slapping America in the face. If we’re lucky, it will revive our sleepwalking nation. While cramming more ...

Area students were invited to create speeches for the Eden Prairie Optimist Club’s annual oratorical contest based on the theme, “Where are the roots of my optimism?” Eden Prairie High School student ...

Abstract: Given a rational cone, we can associate to it an affine semigroup. This result, referred to as Gordan's Lemma allows us to define a Hilbert basis for a rational cone. After computing some ...

These questions present two statements: an assertion (a statement of fact) and a reason (an explanation for the assertion). Students must select the correct outcome from four options based on the ...

Hood said that he wanted to avoid the clichés of the traditional math movie, “like the token superimposition of numbers on the screen,” and instead leaned into a thriller angle as Brooks ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the ...

Nevertheless, Sloane is not giving up. Now age 85, he continues to spread his enthusiasm for mathematics and numbers and to motivate people to have fun with it, too. He certainly does not need to ...