The bonus points initiative (BPI) was introduced in 2012 to incentivise the study of higher-level mathematics and with the long-term goal of improving students’ mathematical capabilities. Since its ...

I READ various complaints about the recent Higher Maths exam ("Teachers say Highers 'too hard'", The Herald, May 23, and Letters, May 23); from my viewpoint point as a GTCS-registered teacher with ...

Higher maths course needs revision As a secondary school mathematics teacher, with an engineering (electrical) degree and of the same vintage (but yet to retire) as Alan Sangster, I can empathise with ...

Professor of Mathematics Assaf Naor has been awarded the 2019 Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics in recognition of his pioneering achievements at the interface of the geometry of Banach spaces, the ...

A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for decades. A Rutgers ...

There’s a popular myth that Alfred Nobel had wanted to create a prize for mathematics but didn’t want his love rival, the Swedish mathematician Gosta Mittag-Leffler, to win and so scrapped the idea.

Fewer school students are studying advanced mathematics – which means fewer engineers down the line. A recent roundtable set ...