Teaching mathematical statistics: one lecturer’s way of testing what students understand

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...
NPR

British mathematician John Hogan explains his research on the 'golfer's curse'

NPR's Scott Simon talks to John Hogan, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Bristol, about his research on the "Golfer's Curse" - when a ball looks like it's been sunk, but spins back ...
Newsweek

Mathematician Solves Algebra’s Oldest Problem

A mathematician has uncovered a way of answering some of algebra's oldest problems. University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger, has revealed a potentially game-changing ...
The Conversation

The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th‑century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators

Scott Taylor receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the John and Mary Neff Foundation. Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was ...