Danica McKellar's first math book flies off the ... Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.

Limits to understanding NOVA: Is there any way you can make people who know little about mathematics understand the supreme elegance of string theory? Greene: I think so. You know, when we talk ...

(In mathematics, moving into ever higher dimensions is a walk in the park. See Multidimensional Math.) How about 10-D? In 1919, Polish mathematician Theodor Kaluza proposed that the existence of a ...

In mathematics nowadays, when we think about infinity, we think about a set whose properties are different from those of ordinary sets. NOVA: Can you explain? Netz: Well, the defining property of ...

Almost by accident, Simon noticed that there were many, many math jokes embedded in “The Simpsons.” After a little research, he found out why Homer is such a closet mathematician. Simon Singh ...

The language of math By his own reckoning, Galileo's most important contribution involved neither the astronomical discoveries that immortalized his name, nor his published defense of Copernicus ...