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I was excellent at math during my school years, able to solve complex derivatives and integrals with ease, but now I can ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day ...

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In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

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