Everybody loves democracy—except, that is, when a majority tramples the rights of a minority. Constitutional safeguards provide some protection against the preferences of the many, but these ...

In a boon to algebra students everywhere, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University has devised a simpler and more efficient way to solve problems involving the quadratic equation. The new method was ...

Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch's book, "The Last Lecture", was released last week, just over six months from when he gave his heavily YouTube viewed lecture by the same name.

Roots can occur in a parabola in 3 different ways as shown in the diagram below: In diagram A, we can see that this parabola has 2 roots, diagram B has 1 root and diagram C has no roots. What type of ...