By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

The final set of common academic standards released June 2 by the Common Core State Standards Initiative are a welcome milestone in the standards movement that began more than 20 years ago when the ...

The aim of the Northwestern Student Chapter of SIAM is to provide a platform for students involved in science to interact with one another. SIAM ESAM graduate students form the core of Northwestern's ...

This article reports the contribution of small-group cooperative instructional strategy among pre-service teacher education students in learning college level discrete mathematics (Math 122). Two ...