Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.

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A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

NYC Solves has faced criticism from educators for assuming kids have mastered skills, leaving some lost and frustrated.

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Abstract: A wide variety of graph algorithms expressed as linear algebra operations, i.e., triangle counting, k-truss analysis, breath first search, betweenness centrality, depend on the masked sparse ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...