Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Picture a tune that plays with your mind. It does not go straight but skips and flips in ways you do not expect. That is math rock. It avoids common music paths, which makes it feel fresh and smart.

The project started as undergraduate research supervised by the study’s co-corresponding author, Naoki Masuda, professor in the Department of Mathematics. That initial work carried out a somewhat ...

Freedom of speech is the right to say whatever you like about whatever you like, whenever you like, right? Wrong. 'Freedom of speech is the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of ...

When NVDA with MathCAT is reading aloud a text phrase that contains multiple in-line Office Math expressions as the result of a keyboard command/navigation, the content between the first Office Math ...

On Sunday, some current faculty members at Columbia University learned through a news article that all new students and faculty at the school will be mandated to go through an orientation on ...

The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee Friday passed two bills tightening the definition of gender and limiting gender expression. The first equates sex and gender under Idaho law and says there are ...

Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of their gender. Gender expression refers to how people may convey their gender to others through behavior and appearance. Gender exists on a broad ...

Genetic factors typically define a person’s sex, but gender refers to how they identify on the inside. Some examples of gender identity types include nonbinary, cisgender, genderfluid, male, female, ...