Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...

For the last 20 years at the U of I, students in intermediate algebra, Math 108, and college algebra ... from publisher ...

Loring Tu, a math professor at Tufts Unversity, is donating millions to the school thanks to his extraordinary stock market ...

He tells us—twice—that he owns his own jet, on which he spends $1.2 million a year (“one of the easiest financial decisions I’ve ever made”). But a running tension throughout the book is that ...

Do you know about all these podcasts? They are everywhere. Yes, I’m slow on finding out about these newfangled things. Actually, I’ve known about podcasts for a while but didn’t ...

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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week include histories of corporate mismanagement and misbehavior in the 19th century (“Savings and ...

Reports of only 35 books being sold at a book fair in Lahore, Pakistan have been disputed as false. A book fair in Lahore saw book sales eclipsed by biryanis and shawarmas? Here is the truth.

A GCSE textbook that says jihad in Gaza is “justified” has been pulled from print. The book – designed for 16-year-olds sitting the AQA Religious Studies exam – says “social oppression ...

When students take Algebra 1 matters. If high schoolers don’t pass the course by 9th grade, they’re unlikely to reach college-preparatory math in high school. There are too many courses to get ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Ruins are a theme in this week’s recommended books, from the collapse of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie empire to the lives ...