A viral video showing students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology clapping for a math professor during his last lecture has social media in a stir, for good reasons, of course. Gilbert ...

Linear algebra is rarely described as popular, but rarely does a mathematician portray it in a different, illuminating light. That is certainly one reason Gilbert Strang’s linear algebra lectures are ...

John C. Urschel is an assistant professor in the MIT Math Department and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He previously played for the Baltimore Ravens. This interview has been ...

In recent years, quantum computers have lost some of their luster. It once seemed that they might be able to solve hard problems exponentially faster than classical computers, but so far, that’s ...