Mathematics News

Two Cleveland State students placed in the recent Tennessee Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges state competition.

Marisa Jackson plans two months ahead to make sure she can cover her family's routine expenses on her minimum-wage pay.

Competitions are pivotal part of learning mathematics and mathematics is important for us as a nation to be competitive in the 21st century economy.

"Are you talking about you?" President Barack Obama quoted the reaction of a young African-American man at the recent announcement of the My Brother's Keeper Initiative.

Scientific Computing is excited to be celebrating its 30th year in 2014, and we have a terrific line-up of new things we will be introducing throughout the coming months.

The certificate is a fairly new thing. More employers around the country and the state are accepting or requiring the certification, but not too many locally yet.

Anyone who knows the recent research that shows that a reader's brains are directly, measurably affected by reading fiction won't be surprised to learn that mathematics can have a similar effect - at least on mathematicians.

Circulation Research , Vol. 91, No. 8. , pp. 662-671, doi:10.1161/01.res.0000037427.73184.c1 Since the late 1970s when many journals published articles warning about the misuse of statistical methods in the analysis of data, researchers have become more careful about statistical analysis, but errors including low statistical power and inadequate ... (more)

In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo South Carolina School Superintendent, Mick Zais, center, greets supporters at a GOP event for South Carolina governor-elect Nikki Haley in Columbia, S.C. Zais says South Carolina high school students who don't plan to go to college should be able to choose more practical courses than algebra II, English literature ... (more)

President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev signed the order on the statistical council on March 7, the president's press service reported.

As the world marks International Women's Day March 8, some women say the best way to improve conditions for their sisters, and their families, is through better education in the so-called STEM subjects -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Margaret N. Freije, Ph.D., has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College of the Holy Cross .

Boulder, Colorado-based Rogue Wave Software , which is a major provider of software development tools for the embedded computing market, said this week that it has linked with the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council in a scientific computing deal.

Antarctica may be the last place one would expect to find a mathematician, but Ken Golden isn't your average mathematician.

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on , Vol. 25, No. 4. , pp. 3105-3112, doi:10.1109/tpwrd.2010.2056396 To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.

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Inside the dynamite new issue of CounterPunch magazine: John LaForge takes an unflinching survey of the state of the nuclear power industry in the wake of Fukushima: its ailing plants, leaking pipes, security threats, accumulating radioactive waste and escalating costs.

That's the headline you've probably been reading since last week, when astronomers with the Kepler space telescope team announced the validation of 715 new planets.

LIVINGSTON, NJ Recently, a few Livingston students competed in Mathcounts , a mathematical competition for middle school students.

Conway's game of Life is huge among programmers and mathematicians alike. It has generated a community of "Lifers" dedicated to constructing whole worlds in Life and investigating it as if it was a universe of its own.