The agility of machine learning, discovery of new materials, efficiency of transportation, diagnostic power of medical devices, and delight of animated movies can all be attributed to applied analysis ...

You may think that everything about mathematics has been known for centuries, but nothing could be further from the truth. Faculty and students in the math department are engaged in many areas of ...

Dr. Roberto Hernández Palomares grew up in a working-class family in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, where a career in mathematics often felt like an impossible dream. Despite the odds, ...

Members of the cryptology group at BSU work in areas of cryptography and cryptanalysis, and in several areas of number theory and combinatorics. The contributing faculty are Liljana Babinkostova and ...

To devise a foolproof strategy for bidding chess, a variant of the game in which players bid for the right to move instead of taking turns, you might need longer than a lifetime. It’s the sort of task ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, ...