Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

At left: Pierce, far right, organized an event called "The Many Faces of Science" at Forbes College this past fall to introduce undergraduate women to fields in which they are often underrepresented, ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

It's true that transformation matrices are used a lot in 3D graphics, but to understand what you want to do (as opposed to how to get it done), you want to understand "descriptive geometry". IME ...

CU Boulder’s graduate program in applied mathematics is consistently ranked in the top 15 programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Our master’s degree program offers students the ...