Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language ...

GRASS LAKE, MI - Math teachers were some of Lisa Malmo’s biggest inspirations growing up. Now she strives to bring that same motivation to her own students. Malmo, 54, has spent her entire 25-year ...

That’s physics historian Graham Farmelo. Long-time listeners may recall hearing him talk about his Paul Dirac biography, The Strangest Man, and the subsequent Churchill’s Bomb, about the early British ...

Within science circles, trying to come up with a new universal language was a trendy past-time in the 17th Century. Even the man who discovered gravity, Sir Isaac Newton, took a stab at it. Arika ...