When disaster looms, who you gonna call? It could increasingly be a mathematician, if IBM scientists succeed in one of their current research efforts. IBM announced last week that its scientists have ...

Call it IBM’s Math-To-The-Rescue Program. Big Blue this week said its researchers had created specialized algorithms to help model and manage natural disasters such as wildfires, floods and diseases.

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...