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Here is a story about the topologist R H Bing (1914-1986): One day R H Bing was driving a group of mathematicians to a conference. As usual, Bing launched into a detailed discussion of a particular problem in topology that he wanted to solve. The passengers were nearly as initerested in the math as Bing, [...]

I am going to quote from a new book by Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner (p. 26). Alice Schaefer (1915-2009), a US mathematician, head of the mathematics department at Wellesley College from 1962 to 1980, happened to skip from third to fourth grade. At the time her teacher said that, although she and one of [...]

This is a hard question to answer because there are many views on what mathematics is and whether it is a science at all, let alone an exact one. And, of course, there is a question of what constitutes an exact science. To compound it all, not only it is possible to question the meaning [...]

The latest College Mathematics Journal brought an absolutely marvelous news. Three young boys from three different countries who never met managed to discover and solve online a problem and report its solution in a hard copy in a respectable math publication. I remove my hat to Alif Anggoro, Java Bekasi, Indonesia, seventh grade Eddy Liu, [...]