Those architects of modern education obsessed with abandoning the humanities in favor of the so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math) should pause to consider the words of ...

Constantine Karatheodori is one of the greates mathematicians of the 20th century. He worked with many great minds including ...

How much of a role did Albert Einstein's first wife play in the theory of relativity? In recent years, some historians have asserted that Einstein shared the credit for his research on the special ...

Emmy Noether is the most accomplished mathematician you probably never heard of. She helped Albert Einstein with the math required to formulate his Theory of Relativity. And then she came up with what ...

In a striking tribute to the mathematician Emmy Noether upon her death in 1935, Albert Einstein penned a New York Times appreciation lauding her discoveries, while at the same time drawing larger life ...

Albert Einstein, the wire-haired physicist, whose worked reshaped our understanding of the universe, is a household name—but that wasn't always the case. Before 1919, only a handful of scientists knew ...

We talked with historian of science Michael Gordin, Princeton’s dean of the college, who has taught the popular course “The Einstein Era,” about the life and times of Princeton's most famous resident, ...

In 1934, <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30268860/negativity-effect/" id="10a1af0c-54d5-3326-afd4-f24cff019809"> psychologist </a> Max Wertheimer sent a ...

Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science (MS)² teacher Florentia Spires was recently selected as one of the 22 Albert Einstein Fellows for 2013-14. As a fellow, Spires has been ...

In 1934, psychologist Max Wertheimer sent a letter to his friend, the physicist Albert Einstein, with the following puzzle enclosed. There's an old car that needs to go up and down a hill. The hill is ...