Mathematics News

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.

I'm the founder of Science 2.0A and co-author of "Science Left Behind". A wise man once said Darwin had the greatest idea anyone... Statisticians have a rule of thumb for calibrating claims made in humanities and science papers alike.

The title of this post is the title of this intriguing new paper on SSRN authored by Corey Rayburn Yung.

The statistical evaluation of digital user data is of vital importance for analyzing trends.

President Obama entered office promising to restore the sanctity of science. Instead, a fresh war against science, statistics and reason is being waged on behalf of politically correct politics.

Talks Wednesday night by teachers and administrators for two Pottsgrove School District elementary schools were about keeping students "challenged" in math.

The Canadian Labour Congress is asking Statistics Canada to change the way it reports on unemployment, saying a more fulsome analysis of the data it collects would paint a very different picture of the country's labour market.

Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters and you weren't even told that such paintings existed.

Euler's formula, linking the numbers i , I and e , is so revered that some mathematicians, such as Xander Henderson of the University of Nevada in Reno, have had it tattooed on their bodies.

According to Dr. Michelle Golland, in USA, "mate swapping" or " swinging " for engaging in sexual activities with the people who belong to outside of your marriage is mainly seen as deviant or strange.

Bloody Elbow's analytics expert shares the formula for winning UFC Fight of the Night and some potential dangers of relying on simple statistics.

On the first day, no one came. The second day, an addict in the throes of withdrawal showed up looking for advice.

"5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus," says a math education researcher with a book out about teaching calculus to 5-year-olds.

The March 2014 issue of The College Mathematics Journal features the work of not one, not two, but 11 students-three high schoolers, six undergraduates, and two graduate students-and nothing but the mathematical merit of their work earned it the distinguished placement.

A family from Harrogate has faced the most traumatic of ordeals after both sons were diagnosed with a deadly heart condition.

Vi Hart, the Internet's favorite manic vlogging mathematician, has released a new video in which she teams up with math artists Andrea Hawksley and Gwen Fisher , and Gwen's sister Ruth of Sweets by Ruth .

THESE mementoes of schooldays long past have been given to us by Bernard Francis of Walsall.