When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

In the spring, the Issaquah School District set out to pick the best math curriculum to help its high-school students prepare for the state’s rigorous new math standards. The district’s math pros ...

There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...