Researchers use statistics and math to understand how the brain works

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...
Wall Street Journal

This Musical’s Secret Weapon Is a Math Major

Simon Broucke didn’t expect to use his mathematics degree for his music assistant job at “Masquerade,” the new interactive revival of “The Phantom of the Opera” in New York. But when “Masquerade” ...
Education Week

I Thought I Knew When Students Were Engaged in Math Class. I Was Wrong

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...
Quanta Magazine

A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots

With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex ...