Had you asked G H Hardy – the Cambridge scholar responsible for myriad seminal mathematical results and developments of the early 20th century – what his favorite area of math was, he’d answer without ...

Piaget's 3-stage theory of the child's attainment of the concept of number was applied as a number readiness criterion to ninety-six kindergarten children. Two children were found to be at the initial ...

Scientists have found what they say is a link between complex number theory and string theory. A mathematician and physicist working together found the connection, which they say is part of plotting ...

There are three kinds of prime numbers. The first is a solitary outlier: 2, the only even prime. After that, half the primes leave a remainder of 1 when divided by 4. The other half leave a remainder ...

Melanie Matchett Wood is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In October, she was awarded the MacArthur ...

This paper outlines the statistical theory of global and local extremes of stationary processes with applications to a number of engineering problems. First the asymptotic theory of extremes and ...