Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In this recasting, mathematics isn’t just about solving problems, but about figuring ...

Math, as author and University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg writes, may not be the most readily accessible subject in school. When faced with a complex equation a student may ask, “When am ...

Stewart (Significant Figures), an emeritus mathematics professor at Warwick University, delves into the mysteries of probability and statistics in this fascinating look at chaos theory and the ...

While mathematics in architecture has historically referenced notions of order, proportion, and ideal form, the discipline of mathematics itself has shifted to encompass uncertainty, incompleteness, ...

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for establishing the predictive accuracy of computational models for essentially all fields of science and engineering ...

The question of whether or not Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction in 2003 vexed the U.S. intelligence community more than a decade ago. Faulty intelligence, overzealous intelligence ...

When she started school in the United States, Maria Marquez-Ornelas felt like an outsider. As an English learner, she was only able to communicate with her teachers through her bilingual classmates.

Uncertainty issues are paramount in the assessment of risks posed by natural hazards and in developing strategies to alleviate their consequences. In a paper published last month in the SIAM/ASA ...