Mathematics News

A UCLA workshop April 22 and 23 will address the "Mathematics of Politics" and how data analysis based on sophisticated mathematics is reshaping political campaigns.

Perhaps if you had known that some of the best jobs of 2014 would require mathematical skills, you would've paid more attention in math class.

El Profesional de la Informacion , Vol. 19, No. 5. , pp. 534-544, doi:10.3145/epi.2010.sep.15 Open access to information has brought about a multiplication of data that can be used to carry out statistical analysis on the impact of scientific publications, thus paving the way for new metrics models for scholarly communication.

PROOF IS A PLAY ABOUT BRILLIANT BUT TROUBLED MINDS. THE TRYON LITTLE THEATER WILL BRING THE STORY TO THE STAGE.

It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn - and that this is because of discrimination.

Math genius Jason Padgett said a blow to the back of the head made him see the world in a completely different way.

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Northern Lehigh School District has a plan in place to provide students with the best math education according to state standards.

While the population of most of the country's metro areas grew at a low pace in recent years, in a... CareerCast is out with their annual ranking of the 10 best and 10 worst jobs for 2014 , and let's just say that math and science guys everywhere are about to high-five.

It is an independent supranational institution dedicated to the collection, analysis, and dissemination of official data on member states for the benefit of decision makers, researchers, and other users.

And after Friday, the Ralston High School senior still wasn't entirely sure what it was that he'd taken part in at the University of Nebraska at Omaha's second annual event celebrating the art of deriving and anti-deriving.

How did we come to divide the hour into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds? These smaller divisions of time have been in practical use for only about 400 years, but they were vital to the advent of modern science.

When you come across a story that asks who views more porn, those in red states or those in blue states , well you have to read on.

Most people probably don't think of learning calculus as fun. But a new interactive exhibit here at the Museum of Math lets visitors learn about the principles of motion in an interactive way, by walking or running on a special motion-sensing track.

It's easy to label someone as a picky eater if they seem generally fussy or unadventurous when it comes to food.

Florida's unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 6.3 percent in March. The numbers released Friday morning represent a 0.1 percent increase in the jobless rate over February and a slight setback in the forward movement of the state's economy.

KentuckyFC writes: "Typeface design is something of an art. For many centuries, this art has been constrained by the materials available to typographers, mainly lead and wood.

Each year in Ohio, approximately 200 people die waiting for an organ transplant.

Home prices in major Chinese cities grew at a slower pace in March, with fewer cities reporting month-on-month price gains, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Friday.

More crime has been reported on Eastern Michigan University's daily crime logs as EMU's Department of Public Safety has expanded its patrol borders.