Math. It's one of those things that is easy ... remarkable mathematicians whose work continues to help shape our modern world, sometimes hundreds of years after their death. Enjoy!

Centuries ago, a prestigious Islamic library brought Arabic numerals to the world. Though the ... any wider discussion about mathematics. Photo12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The library ...

When you get beyond the basics of addition and subtraction, math seems to suffer from a dissociation with real world application ... old I decided to play a game with him and asked, 'What is 1 + 1?' ...

Yet today all of mathematics is ... spread throughout the world. Arabic scholars took up the concepts and developed the Arabic number system, on which our modern numbers are based.

Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in Europe, which revolutionized not only mathematics but commerce ...

U.S. high school students learn algebra and geometry — and are woefully underprepared for the modern world. The Los Angeles Unified School District is leading the way in updating the way math is ...

A century ago, the great mathematician David Hilbert posed a probing question in pure mathematics. A recent advance in optimization theory is bringing Hilbert’s work into a world of self-driving cars.