A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square. Consider a square with a bunch of points inside. Take ...

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Do you live in a city vying to be the country’s next biotech hub? Get in line. In recent years, the Berkshires, Salt Lake City, and even Rochester, Minn., among others, have jockeyed for the ...

The Teaching Triangles program provides faculty with an opportunity to gain new insight into their teaching and students’ learning through a non-evaluative, formative process of reciprocal classroom ...

Introduction Do you ever use math as a tool to solve interesting problems? In the 1970s math was often taught with simple worksheets. One teacher was looking for a way to help his students have more ...

Do you think there’s a triangle whose angles measure 41, 76 and 63 degrees? At first, answering this may seem easy. From geometry class we know that the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a ...

The 1-million-sq.-ft. building will bring more than 3,000 additional jobs to RTP. Jobs will be offered in machine learning, artificial intelligence, software engineering and other cutting-edge ...

In which we embark on a quest to forge a precise triangle wave, and use that to help set a gold standard for fake sine waves. How well will we fare? A while ago, I needed (or wanted) a pocket-sized ...