Mathematics News

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.

The news New Zealand has plunged in the OECD's Pisa league table, which ranks the educational performance of 15-year-olds around the world, has sparked an outburst of breast-beating and blame.

I'm trying to write a chess simulation where entity's ratings are emergent out of pairings where the results are based on comparison of various statistics.

The gap between American high school students and teens in other developed countries is widening when it comes to literacy in mathematics according to results from the Program for International Student Assessment .

During most of the 20th century, wages in the United States were set not just by employers but by a mix of market and institutional mechanisms.

In 2009, the natural sciences library at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was one of the first in the country to lend laptops to faculty and students.

The Arkansas Razorbacks lost to both Mississippi schools this year in football, but at least the state leads in another, more important area: the number of adults age 25-64 with college degrees.

We live in world where speed and change are no longer the exception, they are the norm.

Although it's a great place to live, Illinois can sometimes be a seriously dangerous place to work, and no one knows this better that our Illinois workers compensation lawyers .

If you're looking for "a whole new way of killing cancer," don't turn to the journals.

Emily Koenders writes that she is working on a paper on gematria in rabbinic literature and wonders if I can help her locate the talmudic sources of three examples of it.

We lived in Highgate, in north London. My sister Mary was born 18 months after me, and I'm told I did not welcome her arrival.

Farmingdale State College sophomore Javier Garcia took first place in the 2013 annual U.S. National Collegiate Mathematics Championship, part of the Mathematical Association of America's conference, Mathfest, held in Hartfod, Conn.