The cost of chronometers was likely a factor, writes David Lindsay Roberts, A&S '98 (PhD), in Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans Through History, published in October by ...

After receiving a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University, Bellos left the world of numbers for the world of words — working as a journalist first in England and later in Brazil.

Third grade students read at Richmond Heights Elementary School. About 83 percent of students there passed the state's Third Grade Reading Guarantee in May, a 40 percentage-point increase from the ...