Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 38, No. 1/3, Forms of Mathematical Knowledge: Learning and Teaching with Understanding (1999), pp. 189-208 (20 pages) What important ideas about forms of ...

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In Drexel University’s Department of Mathematics, students work alongside renowned faculty experts while gaining hands-on career and research experiences. The mathematics department at Drexel ...

Mathematicians have figured out how to expand the reach of a mysterious bridge connecting two distant continents in the mathematical world. The proof Wiles finally came up with (helped by Richard ...

A British mathematician and the author of “Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature.” “Call me Ishmael.” This has to be one of the most famous opening sentences ...