In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted ...

Calculus courses’ continued use of video instruction draws student pushback By Claire Redmer 10/13/21 12:39am Credit: Olivia West Penn calculus courses are teaching students through a flipped ...

Do any of you current programmers actually use calculus as part of your programs? I don't. But I do design and apply algorithms in a consistent and rigorous way.

For more than 30 years, calculus has been seen as the pinnacle of high school math—essential for careers in the hard sciences, and an explicit or unspoken prerequisite for top-tier colleges. But ...

I developed a “math applications” class specifically for high school students who are not “calculus bound.” Prioritizing statistical literacy and practical math, while deprioritizing calculus, will ...

Calculus can be a miserable slog for many high schoolers. It’s estimated that 20 percent of students (about 800,000 a year) take the subject, generally when they are seniors. I was surprised to ...

Ancient Babylonians used early calculus to track path of Jupiter, study finds Technique that became basis of modern-day graphs did not emerge in medieval Europe until 1400 years later ...

A form of calculus thought to have been discovered some 700 years ago may be three times as old.

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

In science and mathematics, it has been a fairly common occurrence for two different people/teams to be working on the same ...