KINGSTON, Jamaica — Greater Portmore High School in St Catherine has achieved a pass rate of 82 per cent in Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) English, moving from a rate of 56 per cent.

Alfred Nobel excluded mathematics from his prizes, likely due to his focus on tangible benefits to mankind, viewing math as too theoretical. While personal rivalry theories are disproven, mathematics ...

Alfred Nobel's prestigious awards honor many fields but notably exclude mathematics. This has sparked curiosity for years. While popular myths about personal rivalries exist, historical research ...

The gates of R. Kelly’s onetime “Chocolate Factory” mansion in suburban Chicago have closed for good — and at a steep discount. The 21,000-square-foot estate, where the R&B singer once recorded hits ...

Knowledge gained by combining measurements and simulations leads to increased confidence in the safety of products, as Louise Wright explains.

AUBURN, Ala. — Millimeters matter. On the verge of going up by three possessions over No. 10 Georgia, Auburn fumbled away a chance at glory by the narrowest margin possible. With 1:36 remaining in the ...

The Test of Mathematics for University Admission (TMUA) tests your mathematical thinking and reasoning skills. Which LSE programmes use the TMUA in their selection process? For these two programmes ...

Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector’s body around Troy, from a panoramic fresco of the Achilleion. Credit: Franz Matsch / Public Domain Scholars continue to be fascinated by the question of when Homer ...

As North America's only dedicated Faculty of Math, we are nationally and internationally recognized as one of the top schools for Mathematics and Computer Science. With nearly $30 million in research ...

MathJax is an open-source JavaScript display engine for LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath notation that works in all modern browsers, with built-in support for assistive technology like screen readers, ...

From the golden ratio to the Fibonacci sequence, this guide reveals the secret mathematics of design that every designer needs to know. Design has always had a close relationship with mathematics.