By hiding math's great masterpieces from students' view, we deny them the beauty of the subject. How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids - Los Angeles Times ...

July 13 -- It has been around the world, battered and burned, then left to grow damp and moldy.Yet within its parchment pages lie the secrets of Archimedes’ mind. It looks like an ancient prayer ...

A DIVINE LANGUAGE {Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age} By Alec Wilkinson 287 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $29. Writing a book is hard enough, so authors will ...