Explanations in mathematics are not yet well understood. I discuss Steiner's theory of mathematical explanation, then attempt to improve it by assimilating its core intuitions to Woodward's ...

Van Fraassen and others have urged that judgements of explanations are relative to why-questions; explanations should be considered good in so far as they effectively answer why-questions. In this ...

Although the narrative in the study is developed as a history of the field, Evelyn Fox Keller discusses a problem of the philosophy of science in her quest of ‘making sense of life.’ The author does ...

Scientists have found an elegant explanation for the long-standing Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem, first proposed in 1953, investigated with one of the world’s first digital computers, and now ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – A University of Missouri researcher and his colleague have conducted a review that casts doubt on the accuracy of a popular theory that attempted to explain why there are more men than ...

Augmented Math: This project introduces a machine learning-based tool that augments static math textbooks with interactive AR explanations, without requiring programming. Using OCR and computer vision ...

Essex District High School math teacher David Gomes enjoys it when his students explain their arithmetic — but maybe it’s better that they don’t explain their goofy portraits of him. “They got my ...