The premise of Marcus du Sautoy’s Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity is that mathematics and creativitiy spring from the same well — structure. Individual numbers exist without human help.

“Help me and let me help you.” Or in Ghana’s Twi language: “Boa me na me mmoa wo.” The aphorism signifies cooperation and interdependence. And like many Twi expressions, it can be communicated with a ...

Art, the universal language, can transcend space and time to reach a diverse audience. We hear this all the time, but do we truly feel the weight of these words? A cloud of elitism envelops the “art ...

In recent times, the Federal Ministry of Education has been coming up with some rather bold reforms for education in Nigeria. The latest is that Nigerian senior secondary school students in arts and ...

Professor of Mathematics Richard Schwartz said he’d initially thought his feature in New York’s Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery exhibition “Metric on a Torus” was a “long shot.” “I thought it was never ...

With declining U.S. student math scores, our schools would be wise to adopt a new formula that is sure to paint a prettier picture for the country’s STEM rankings. Combining math and art classes may ...