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 ...

Students across the country were struggling with math before the pandemic, but the COVID-19 disruption caused their scores on national exams to plummet to historic lows. The struggle is resurfacing an ...

Diversity concerns within Yale’s math department run deep, according to a departmental survey conducted last spring. According to the soon-to-be-released report, just 18 percent of the almost 200 ...

New York took steps to move toward the “science of reading” in early January. And New York City’s NYC Reads initiative, which has required classrooms in the Big Apple to select from three curricula ...

Other UCs are tracking similar trends, but UC San Diego’s problem is “significantly worse,” the report states.

Algebra is considered the gateway to advanced mathematics, and school districts across the country have hoped to diversify access to college-preparatory math by increasing the number of students who ...

Let p be a prime number and let GLn be the group of all invertible matrices over the prime field Fp. It is known that every irreducible GLn- module can occur as a submodule of P, the polynomial ...

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We calculate the Brauer group of the four dimensional Hopf algebra H4 introduced by M. E. Sweedler. This Brauer group BM (k, H4, R0) is defined with respect to a (quasi-) triangular structure on H4, ...

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...