The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathemati….

Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will alw….

In fact, when you try to use [Hans Rosling] data to predict the future, all sorts of problems arise. But what it does do is say, hey, just catch your….

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers..

In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty y….

The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellen….

I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite..

There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another..

Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from t….

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." Wit….