As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...

Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language ...

In the Internet times, most learners will prefer online courses and practices to expand their mathematics knowledge, so math symbols and equations in online quizzes would be an essential part for ...

Kutchinsky’s Egg: A Family’s Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss The inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, this debut collection from Gleason contains enlightening and beautifully written ...

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees, too, can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much ...