George Habash, a militant and former secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, once characterized terrorism as a "thinking man's game." Using mathematics, researchers at ...

Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal, mathematics' leading award, has died of cancer at the age of 40, Stanford News Service said. What was worse ...

In an effort to remedy Harvard’s relative weakness in a critical field, Harvard has succeeded in luring a star mathematician away from Stanford University to strengthen its own mathematics department.

STANFORD (CBS SF) - A Stanford professor has become the first woman ever to win the Fields medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics. Professor Maryam Mirzakhani will be recognized for ...

A pioneer mathematician who guided Stanford University's early computer science program in the 1950s and '60s died last month and will be honored with a fund in his name. Stanford has established the ...

Taking a more visual approach to math instruction at the K-12 and higher-ed levels could dramatically change brain development as it relates to future math success, according to a new paper from ...

After a four-year hiatus, the Stanford Undergraduate Mathematical Organization (SUMO) has brought back the Stanford Math Tournament (SMT), its annual math tournament for high school students. The ...

A romance often involves flowers, nice music and a well-lit dinner. Now a study from England uses mathematical game theory to figure out how best to snag that special someone. Stanford math professor ...

Mathematics education in the United States puts far too much emphasis on memorization, says Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler. And that ultimately leads students to both misunderstand and ...