Mathematics

Leonhard Euler, math genius, gets a Google Doodle

2013-04-15 12:24:00

Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician who continued to work on complex equations from memory even after he went blind, is honored in Monday's Google Doodle on the 306th anniversary of his birth. Euler, who wrote nearly 900 books over the course of his...

3rd marathon bombing fatality is Lu Lingzi, Boston U. grad student

2013-04-17 11:25:00

One of the victims killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was Lu Lingzi, a 23-year-old Chinese woman enrolled in a graduate statistics program at Boston University, the school said Wednesday. Lu was one of three friends who watched the race from the...

San Jose State will expand online courses this summer

2013-04-15 12:31:00

San Jose State University’s experiment in offering low-cost, entry-level online classes for credit will expand this summer with two new courses and increased enrollment, officials announced Monday.� The university partnered earlier this year...

Let's do the math: What are the Dodgers actually worth?

2013-03-28 12:41:00

The courageous bid of the Dilbeck Investment Group to purchase the Dodgers having fallen just a tad short, I’m thinking of selling my 2006 Honda Accord. I know, and all that sentiment. So what’s it worth? Kelly Blue Book said I should be...

Children's brain mass counts for better math skills

2013-04-30 13:36:00

Forget your third grader’s IQ, or working memory, or even previous mathematical abilities. When it comes to improving in math, it’s the brain’s hard wiring that counts. Researchers found that the volume of the hippocampus, a region...

Happy Pi Day! Here's how you can celebrate the joys of 3.14159 ...

2013-03-14 05:30:00

Happy Pi Day!� March 14 -- a.k.a. 3.14 -- has become a day to appreciate the wonders of pi. This mathematical constant describes the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It’s also handy for calculating a circle’s area,...

California trails nation in reading, math and science, report finds

2013-02-21 17:04:21

What it takes to play NCAA Division I sports

2013-02-19 11:02:58

2013 State of the Union: Full prepared transcript

2013-02-12 18:00:00

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...

L.A. schools chief says test cuts could hurt at-risk students

2013-01-14 16:54:02

Community college programs in Pasadena and Santa Barbara honored

2012-11-19 18:32:58

Garfield linebacker pumped for Classic, preps for MIT

2012-10-26 00:00:00

When a 17-year-old high school football player says he wants to apply to Caltech and MIT, everyone should take notice. Alejandro Lupercio, a 6-foot-2, 193-pound senior linebacker at Los Angeles Garfield, has his sights set on becoming a mechanical...

Math teacher Elizabeth Bush poses a problem to summer-school students at Cypress Creek High School recently.

2012-07-18 00:00:00

Students in the geometry division of the math contest moments after the test began. The contest was divided into four different divisions ranging from basic algebra to advanced mathematics and drew students from 7th to 12th grade.

2012-04-18 00:00:00

�Rare Alignment� is a tribute to the underlying mathematics in various art forms. Exhibit continues through Sunday, Jan. 8, at Ice House in Berkeley Springs, W.Va.

2011-12-15 00:00:00