The history and philosophy of science is an unusually dull and unpromising discipline. Yet it managed to produce at least two illuminati in the last century: Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. But there is ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

DR. LODGE'S remarks on p. 513 (April 2), ought not, I think, to pass without protest. He very reasonably objects to being asked to use a formula which is adapted to one particular set of units, and is ...

Algebra can be demystified with the right approach. Transforming word problems into mathematical expressions is crucial, alongside using formula sheets and colour-coding equations for clarity.

PROF. GREENHILL, on p. 462 (March 19), gives a naïve and most instructive description of the straits to which a “practical man” is put when he wishes to interpret the simplest general formula.