J. R. Brown, Philosophy of mathematics: an introduction to the world of proofs and pictures, Routledge (1999). 2. R. B. Nelsen, Proofs without words I: exercises in ...
For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its ...
The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...
As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...
Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.
A few weeks ago, an animated discussion unfolded in a WhatsApp group whose members are mathematicians interested in the Indian Mathematical Olympiad. The spark was a Nature paper that announced a ...