Math is everywhere, from the gas station and grocery store to the stock market and science magazines. And it shows up, of course, in schools at all levels. But the educational system doesn’t provide ...

Universities spend a lot of money on journal subscriptions. A lot. My institution budgets millions of dollars annually for this. Multiply that by all the major universities in the world and it's clear ...

Late last January, University of Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers decided to run a little experiment. Was it possible, he wondered, for a large number of mathematicians to collaborate openly on the ...

CHICAGO, IL (March 1, 2016) - Sir Timothy Gowers, the world-renowned Cambridge mathematician, and a team of distinguished colleagues are taking on for-profit academic journal publishers with today's ...

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Mathematics: A very short introduction by Timothy Gowers, OUP, £6.99, ISBN 0192853619 Reviewed by Elizabeth Sourbut TIMOTHY Gowers has the task of covering the whole of mathematics in a truly ...

In the mid-20th century the encyclopedic works of French mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki traced every mathematical concept back to the subject’s foundations in the theory of sets—the stuff of Venn ...

You have a burning thought on the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function or a hankering to work on Yang-Mills theory. Or maybe an irrepressible inkling about quadratic residues is on your mind.