This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet "beautiful" is a word that I and ...

The relation between mathematics and beauty is genuine, but elusive. There seems to be no prospect of inventing a Calculus of the Beautiful (not that this has dissuaded some brave and foolhardy souls ...

Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a beautiful landscape painting or a piano sonata. Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical ...

In this month’s message, I want to share a new advocacy resource, High School Mathematics Pathways Infographics. This series of one-page documents is designed for families, math teachers, ...

We use math everyday — from calculating tips at restaurants to baking a pie (not pi) to banking. It can start to feel like a bit of a slog doing all this basic adding and subtracting, so I invite you ...

In his recent book, "The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions," political scientist Andrew Hacker argues, among other things, that we should not require high school students to take algebra. Part of ...

At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both. Faye E. Goldman's origami, center, on view at the National Museum of Mathematics ...

Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a beautiful landscape painting or a piano sonata - and you don't need to be a mathematician to get it, ...