Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Is Math Real? by Eugenia Cheng. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email ...

As a young math student, Rachel Eng memorized formulas and theorems, but she never learned about the mathematicians who developed them. Nor did she hear about the controversies and dramas that ...

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 ...

PRINCETON-- More than a year after his death, Princeton University mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is bidding farewell to the academic world with a new book about the biggest mysteries of ...

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 ...

Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a genius!” they reply. Or ...

We met author and actress Danica McKellar at MoMath — the National Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan — recently to talk to her about her latest book, “Do Not Open This Math Book” (Crown Books). We ...

Math is everywhere, from the gas station and grocery store to the stock market and science magazines. And it shows up, of course, in schools at all levels. But the educational system doesn’t provide ...