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Ideas for raising curious, capable, independent learners.
Srinivasa Ramanujan taught himself from a single borrowed book — a lesson for every home educator.
Dec 24, 2024 · 2 min readBefore there were computers, Turing imagined one — and asked whether it could think.
Oct 15, 2024Euler kept producing brilliant mathematics even after going blind. How?
Sep 24, 2024The first woman to win the Fields Medal called math like reading a novel.
Sep 3, 2024Erdős owned almost nothing and co-wrote with hundreds. Math was his way of loving people.
Aug 20, 2024Astronauts trusted her calculations over the computer. She trusted the math.
Aug 6, 2024He solved problems not by force but by patiently raising the water until they floated free.
Jul 16, 2024If you can't explain it to a child, Feynman said, you don't really understand it.
Jun 18, 2024One of the ancient world's great mathematicians taught in the open air of Alexandria.
Jun 4, 2024A modern prodigy who insists genius is mostly hard, patient, shared work.
May 14, 2024Math MindsThe father of analytic geometry began by doubting everything he'd been told.
Apr 16, 2024Math MindsGreat mathematicians share one trait more than raw talent: they don't quit.
Mar 26, 2024Math MindsA century before computers, Ada Lovelace saw what they could become.
Feb 27, 2024Math MindsSent home when the universities closed, a young Newton did his greatest thinking at the kitchen table.
Jan 30, 2024