Back in the seventies, the mathematics department at the Soviet Union’s Moscow State University (one of the most prestigious departments in the USSR at the time) used a special collection of math ...

Imagine you are a 14-year-old kid again. You need to do this really difficult math exercise for tomorrow, but have no idea how to do it. What if you could just open an app on your phone, point your ...

Recorded on September 23, 2016. Photomath is a new app that not only solves complex math equations but teaches you how to solve them yourself. It uses your phone’s camera to scan the math equation.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: The importance of math literacy cannot be overstated (“Math crisis began a decade ago and has only ...