This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

South Dakota's proposed math standards are sparking debate, with critics saying they're too simple and lack guidance.

It's said that statistics don't lie, but they often don't tell the whole truth, either. A Cornell statistics expert has come up with a method he believes can boost statistical power and significantly ...

You have probably encountered the base rate fallacy, and it probably fooled you. Part mathematical paradox and part cognitive ...

Governments that value effective policymaking should be alert to the perils of falling survey-response rates, inadequate ...

The National Association of Scholars has pushed its model standards in social studies, science and English language arts. Now it’s set its sights on math.

An individual has been described by a neighbor as follows: “Steve is very shy and withdrawn, invariably helpful but with little interest in people or in the world of reality. A meek and tidy soul, he ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Indian statistician P.C. Mahalanobis pioneered large-scale sample surveys and changed how the world collects data., People, Times Now ...