The city’s top high school students won the math wars. The Board of Education’s math teams took first, second and third place in the New York State Mathematics League contest. Joel Lewis of Stuyvesant ...

Over the last half-dozen years, tormented mathematical geniuses have overrun movie screens and theater stages. First, in 1997, there was “Good Will Hunting,” a film about a young janitor who happens ...

I read “Talk of U.S. Crisis in Math, Science Is Largely Misplaced, Skeptics Say” (March 22, 2006) hoping to find something different from recent articles on the need to boost U.S. math and science ...