Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

A Tufts University professor has a proposal to combat gerrymandering: give more geometry experts a day in court. Moon Duchin is an associate professor of math and director of the Science, Technology ...

Sam Raskin has wrapped his head around a math problem so complex it took five academic studies — and more than 900 pages — to solve. The results are a sweeping, game-changing math proof that was ...

The gradient of a straight line is how steep it is. It can be calculated from a given set of coordinate points. There are three special cases of straight lines: parallel, horizontal and vertical.