This dispute is just one of many such little-known events; for example, another debate has been raging for centuries over who invented the symbol for ... and relied on it. Scientific American ...

SCIENTIFIC NOTATION....Today the Washington Post takes a look at looming teacher shortages caused by a wave of retirements among baby boomers combined with NCLB's requirements that all teachers ...

A new book traces the history of division signs, square roots, pi, exponents, graph axes and other mathematical symbols. (Bigstock) Consider the simple plus sign: +. Most people, Joseph Mazur ...