Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A viral video showing students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology clapping for a math professor during his last lecture ...

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 ...

Legendary algebra professor's last lecture receives standing ovation by MIT students Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave linear algebra Professor Strang a standing ovation ...