EditorialLisa Harris, an algebra teacher at Patriot High School, in Nokesville, Va. Schools in the area have not seen the shortages that other districts have experienced. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
EditorialElementos de Matematica (Elements of Mathematics), by the Spanish architect and mathematician of The Enlightenment Benito Bails (1730-1797). Cover of Volume II, which is about elements of algebra. Published in Madrid, 1779.
EditorialA teacher leads a class in Pashto literature at the Mawoud Academy tutoring center, where at least 40 students — most from Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority — died two and a half years ago when a suicide bomber detonated explosives during an algebra class, in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 10, 2021. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialElementos de Matematica (Elements of Mathematics), by the Spanish architect and mathematician of The Enlightenment Benito Bails (1730-1797). Cover of Volume II, which is about elements of algebra. Published in Madrid, 1779.
EditorialMethod for excess and deficiency in the Aufl?ssung geometrischer Aufgaben, Resolution of Geometric Problems in a General Way, without the Use of Algebra, Tab. VII, p. 74, Tobias Mayer: Mathematischer Atlas, in welchem auf 60 Tabellen alle Theile der Ma...
EditorialAlgebra and Artihmetic, and Arithmetic Machine of Pascal, Algebra and Arithmetic; Calculating machine by Blaise Pascal, Signed: Benard Direx, Pl. 1 et 2, after p. 14, Benard (dir.), Denis Diderot; M. d'Alembert: Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? d...