Stanford bills itself as giving its students one of the best educations in the world. While that may be true, it’s hard to feel that way when you’re, say, a freshman slogging through Math 51. Or Chem ...

As a research university, Stanford may not guarantee that it has the best undergraduate teaching in the country, but it certainly prides itself on quality. That being said, certain departments seem to ...

A Stanford mathematician has won the coveted 2014 Fields Medal for her original work understanding the mathematical symmetry of curved surfaces and saddle-shaped spaces. Maryam Mirzakhani is the first ...

In an effort to remedy Harvard’s relative weakness in a critical field, Harvard has succeeded in luring a star mathematician away from Stanford University to strengthen its own mathematics department.

UC Berkeley professor Jelani Nelson and Stanford University professor Jo Boaler have been entangled in controversy after criticisms of Boaler’s work arose last week. The backdrop for this conflict is ...

Third graders played for just 10 minutes per day, 3 days a week, for four weeks. The comparison group’s class received the same materials and the same instruction, but didn’t play the game. The result ...