Mathematics

An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure mathematics.

The same problem that caused the 2007 financial crisis also tripped up the polling data ahead of this year’s presidential election.

The results of this year’s presidential election made a mockery of analytical election forecast modelers.

Aside from potential clues gleaned from a fluke result, it would take hundreds of U.S. presidential elections to definitely conclude that one election forecasting model is superior to another.

Quanta Magazine invites readers to share about their early math and science learning experiences and to explore the interactive survey results.

Presidential election forecasts are historically successful and appear to be highly precise. Yet they’re often contradictory. What would it take to trust them?

The impasse in math and science instruction runs deeper than test scores or the latest educational theory. What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines?

When divvying something up, there's more than one way to define what's fair.

Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people.