New University of Delaware alumna Jenna Paltenstein gravitated toward mathematics early, her love for the subject already evident in elementary school. When she got to UD, she took advantage of all it ...

I meet a lot of parents whose kids are still young, sometimes not even school age, who are already convinced that their kids are not cut out for careers in math, tech or science. One mom told me that ...

A North Carolina math lover's fondness for pi helped him score a sweet victory in the state's lottery. "I've always been an extremely big math person," Ruby, a bartender, said in a statement, adding ...

Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

One of the many story lines of Cherríe Moraga’s “The Mathematics of Love” follows an octogenarian with dementia. Peaches (Rose Portillo) can’t remember where she is, why she’s there, that her kids ...

Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. “I’d be at a party, and I’d tell someone what my book was about, and then I’d be ...

Early in his career, mathematician Edward Frenkel had a secret love. He worked diligently on applied mathematics but would sneak away to indulge in the seductive problems of pure mathematics. Frenkel ...