Genius Failed Famously, Sir Isaac Newton lost nearly his entire net worth--20,000 pounds, equivalent to about $4 million in today's U.S. dollars--investing in one of the earliest stocks available. The ...

Imagine if schools used students’ foreign language proficiency to determine which math courses they could take. As ridiculous as that sounds, the opposite is a commonplace practice in U.S. high ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the German mathematician David Hilbert (1862–1943) advocated an ambitious program to formulate a system of axioms and rules of inference that would encompass all ...