Mathematics News

BEGUN in 1988, and officially designated by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009, March 14 - 3/14 - has been celebrated as Pi Day around the world.

"WHY most published research findings are false" is not, as the title of an academic paper, likely to win friends in the ivory tower.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned on Thursday that the economy faces "severe challenges" in 2014 - comments that came as weak data fanned speculation the central bank would relax monetary policy to support stuttering growth.

It describes the relationship between the sides of a right triangle on a flat plane: square the lengths of the short sides, a and b, add those together, and you get the square of the length of the long side, c.

A new chair designed to lure the world's brightest minds in cosmology to the University of Cambridge has generated a heated debate among physicists at the institution.

It's a big procedure that major league pitchers sometimes undergo, but does Tommy John surgery actually improve player performance or make it worse? Henry Ford researchers analyzed pitching stats for 168 MLB pitchers before and after getting Tommy John surgery, a procedure that replaces a ligament in the elbow with a tendon from the same arm or ... (more)

The team of Francesca Ferlaino, University of Innsbruck, discovered that even simple systems, such as neutral atoms, can possess chaotic behavior, which can be revealed using the tools of quantum mechanics.

Exact statistics about extra-marital relationships and cheating in relationships can not be established due to the mysterious nature of unfaithfulness.

Each Thursday, a Georgia Department of Labor representative joins 13WMAZ to share several open jobs in the Central Georgia area.

The following is a news release from the California League of Schools: The day before the Academy Awards, Jonathan Brubaker, an English teacher at Mountain View Middle School in Beaumont Unified School District, sat in a general session at a Sacramento education conference hosted by California League of Schools and learned in Oscar fashion that he ... (more)

Note: Job counts are from December of each year and not seasonally adjusted. Source: Ohio Department of Job and Family Services The five-county Greater Cleveland area saw a dramatic decline in job growth last year, lagging all but one of the state's 12 other metro areas.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's graduate and professional programs have been ranked by U.S. News & World Report for the 2015 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools."

UC San Diego was rated best in the nation for its graduate program in behavioral neurosciences, second in neuroscience and neurobiology, and third in cognitive psychology, biomedical engineering, and discrete mathematics and combinatorics, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual evaluation of the best graduate schools, released Tuesday.

Editor's note: Michael Latta is executive director of YTMBA, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., research and consulting firm.

For five consecutive years I presented the BeerCity USA poll here in this column.

Germany's trade surplus narrowed in January, as an increase in exports from Europe's largest economy was more than offset by a rise in imports.

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.

Superintendent Kenneth Rota said that the Partnership Assessment for Readiness of College and Careers testing will replace the NJASK and HSPA tests.

George Osborne's austerity policies have helped to push average private sector pay above public sector pay, official research has showed.

Ask any school-aged child to recite their multiplication tables for you. Better yet, ask any child if they even like math.