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Though calculus is a notoriously difficult and abstract area of mathematics, its applications form the basis for much of modern technology, science and engineering. Prof. Steven Strogatz, applied ...

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Bestselling math author Danica McKellar has valuable communication tips from a career as a professional storyteller.

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

Blame the sundial. A dinner guest in a poem by the Roman writer Plautus, his stomach rumbling, complains that: “The town’s so full of these confounded dials / The greatest part of the inhabitants, / ...

For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought. Antoine Chambert-Loir’s initiation into one of math’s oldest ...