Calculus: A word that triggers involuntary fear spasms in the best of us. But the days of slogging through tedious textbook derivatives are over, if you want them to be. For the past few years, people ...

It’s not easy to make confusing mathematics topics understandable, let alone interesting, to non-mathematicians, but University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist has figured out the formula.

To many in the United States, advanced forms of mathematics are a terrifying maze of numbers, symbols, graphs, and hypotheticals that render our world more complex than simple observations would ...

Professor Robert Ghrist wrote a 45-page book with various cartoon images as a way to teach higher-level mathematics. Credit: Guyrandy Jean-GIlles, Guyrandy Jean-GIlles “Funny Little Calculus Text” ...