Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...
Quantitative literacy, the ability to interpret numerical data in the context of everyday life, is increasingly important, says Bernard L. Madison, a professor of mathematics at the University of ...
The relationship of spatial and mathematical skills has been the subject of both speculation and empirical investigation. A meta-analysis of correlations of spatial and mathematical skills has found ...