Many of us would probably like to forget sitting through math classes in school. But let’s briefly travel back, just for a ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

One of the most interesting things to talk about in math classes is the difference between correlation and causation. For example, there is a correlation between the number of movies Elijah Wood ...

Online poker looks like a skill game, but the fee matters as much as the cards. That fee is the rake, and it quietly pulls ...

Fox’s lecture, and the accompanying colloquium he’ll present on March 11, are part of his three-day appearance as the William and Marjorie Blackwell Scholar-in-Residence program. The program is named ...

His call to ‘freeze the rent’ galvanized the 69 percent of New Yorkers who don’t own their homes. But the city’s landlords claim the math doesn’t add up.

Near the end of sixth grade, Bronia DePedrina’s daughter became anxious and stressed about going to school.

And since a central mission of most Christian development organizations is to follow Christ’s example in his engagement with ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Friedli, S. and Velenik, Y. Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems: A Concrete Mathematical Introduction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-107-18482-4 DOI: ...

As a relatively new discipline, data science integrates mathematics, statistics, and computer science to analyze diverse forms of data across application domains. Researchers at University of Tsukuba ...

The level of US resources would support a campaign that could last "a few weeks", depending on the level of intensity, an ...