Part of the premise of Good Will Hunting is that if you’re smart enough, you should skip formal education and teach yourself with books. And that was before prestigious universities started uploading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement — ...

Calculus has a formidable reputation as being difficult and/or unpleasant, but it doesn’t have to be. Bringing humor and a sense of play to the topic can go a long way toward demystifying it. That’s ...