Mathematics News

For most of the last two years, economists and politicians have been arguing about whether the slowly falling U.S. unemployment rate, seemingly a sign of health, is actually a statistical mirage created by the long-term jobless as they give up hope and leave the workforce.

AstroML is a Python module for machine learning and data mining built on numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, and matplotlib, and distributed under the 3-Clause BSD license.

Connor MacKenzie , a Westminster College senior mathematics major, was recently notified that one of his mathematics research papers was accepted for publication in the Journal of Classical Analysis .

Margaret Bailey was the first woman and African American woman in the southeastern U.S. to complete the pipe fitter's public apprenticeship program.

AnnMaria De Mars' company was awarded a $450,000 Small Business Innovation Research award from the USDA to further develop a game that teaches elementary students mathematics through 3-D adventure gaming .

When Jerzy Weyman began studying mathematics at Brandeis University in 1978, he says the field was unrecognizable from what it is today.

Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was responsible not only for the development of the Cobol language but also for the continuous pressure within the industry to make computers and computing more accessible and to to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.

Most flying robot models currently base their design on insect-like wing motions, like those of bees, hummingbirds and moths.

EverGreen Recreational Vehicles LLC and its Lifestyle Luxury RV division set new records during last week's National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky., according to a press release.

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In this Oct. 18, photo Chippewa Falls Middle School teacher Melissa Rasmus, left, works with eighth-graders during a math class at the Wisconsin school.

Coronary heart disease accounts for 18 percent of deaths in the United States every year.

Every once in a while I come across statistics that shake up my view of the world, and recently I had one of those moments.

A postdoctoral fellow position is available to support a recently funded project in which we perform a large-scale integrative analysis of genetic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic data from 1000 brains to identify molecular networks relevant to Alzheimer's disease.

Davis & Elkins College education majors are exploring new ways to teach math to children and recently invited area kindergartners to their class to demonstrate how they learn.

There are major flaws in the statistical tools for assessing whether people with serious psychological problems will reoffend, a psychiatrist says WOULD you be surprised to learn that many imprisoned people have serious personality disorders, such as psychopathy? Probably not.

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"Just the two of us is awesome," said Sara Tenenbein, a 30-year-old blogger and consultant living with her husband in Los Angeles.

The mathematically-inclined authors of The Simpsons , the popular TV show that has been running for more than 20 years, have packed the episodes of the show with enough mathematics that could form an entire university course.

New federal safety plans for elderly drivers. But what you might not know is statistically - older drivers are the safest on the road.