Professor Gilbert Strang taught linear algebra for 61 years. His free online lectures, part of MIT OpenCourseWare, reached ...

It had come down to one final integral. At the chalkboard on the left, Justin Brereton was rushing through the equation as if a bomb were about to go off. On the right, Praveen Venkataramana was ...

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Nationwide — Former Baltimore Ravens player John Urschel has made a remarkable career pivot after retiring early from the NFL at the age of 26. Urschel is now a math professor at the Massachusetts ...

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John Urschel, the Baltimore Ravens lineman who once starred in a Bose commercial breaking down the math behind sound due to his MIT education, is now a professor at the prestigious university. ESPN ...

Buchholz High School senior Ellen Li is the first local student to place at MIT’s highly competitive Math Prize for Girls tournament. Over the weekend, she traveled to Boston with six other Buchholz ...

A group of researchers in MIT’s Education Arcade are trying to harness the power of MMO games to teach high school students to think like scientists and mathematicians. Their game, The Radix Endeavor, ...

Hundreds of high schoolers flooded the Science Center Saturday to compete in the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament­—a prestigious competition that attracts students from across the country. Harvard ...

Combinatorics is a fancy word for counting. Doing really big problems by the partial products method gets really cumbersome and no one actually does it. Don’t try to do this chapter if you don’t have ...