Local News Watch: MIT students give longtime professor a standing ovation after his last lecture Gilbert Strang, a world-renowned mathematics professor, has been at MIT — as a student and teacher — ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A beloved math professor who pioneered lectures that gave millions of people free access to college classes has retired after 61 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Linear algebra is rarely described as popular, but rarely does a mathematician portray it in a different, illuminating light. That is certainly one reason Gilbert Strang’s linear algebra lectures are ...

Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation.

Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a ...