Mathematics News

Official figures from the Office for National Statistics said that the shortfall in tax revenues over Government spending fell to 107.7bn in the 12 months to the end of March.

So there is nothing surprising about its being pushed hard this election year. If nothing else, it is a much-needed distraction from the disasters of Obamacare and the various IRS, Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals.

When I heard soprano Lianna Levine sing Handel's cantata Mi palpita il cor , tears fell from my eyes.

He's a man worth listening to for a whole range of reasons: a former dean of the faculty of management at Dalhousie University and deputy minister of development for the province, he's written highfalutin textbooks and reports and was part of "four or five" economic development strategies for Nova Scotia conducted long before Ray Ivany tabled his.

The latest figures published by the Iran Statistical Center indicate that the average rate of unemployment in 2013 for women had risen to be twice as high as those for men.

This article addresses the changing role of statistics in marketing research and uses menu optimization for the fictional Johnny's American Diner to demonstrate how numbers can tell an engaging and actionable story.

Baku, Azerbaijan, April 22 By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend: Children account for 30 percent of the population in Turkey, according to the 2013 statistics of the country's Statistical Institute.

Scientists of the International School for Advanced Studies of Triest have taken a first step toward the creation of functioning artificial cells by reproducing motility in their computer models, causing the "cells" to divide spontaneously without the action of external forces Droplets of filamentous material enclosed in a lipid membrane are the ... (more)

Walter Fields and his wife are proud of their daughter, a sophomore at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, a good math student - scoring proficiency on state tests and earning an A in 8th grade algebra.

Three professors at BYU have created a traffic crash model that the Utah Department of Transportation calls "a game-changer" for making roads safer and saving lives.

North and west of Austin are several neighborhoods heavy with tech talent. How to hire them is up to you.

Only eight of California's 25 metropolitan statistical areas have recovered all of the jobs lost during the Recession, according to a report from the State Controller's Office report released last week.

At stake in the fierce 17th-century debate over a mathematical concept was nothing less than our modern world, says Amir Alexander in Infinitesimal DID you know that every time you use your cellphone, you strike a blow for republicanism against both monarchy and a fixed Divine Order? Historian Amir Alexander sets out why this is so in his book ... (more)

President Obama has made "inequality" his second term cause. It is ironic then that his policies promote government dependence and that his party relies on the lopsided votes of unmarried women with children.

Wednesday, the Collegeboard released more details and sample questions for the new SAT that is currently in development.

"Tree" is one of two STEM sculptures donated to the city by local artist Anton Bakker.

An investigation by the Pre-school Learning Alliance has revealed that data on more than 400 early years inspections was omitted from quarterly statistics published by Ofsted last year due to delays in the publication of inspection reports, Nursery World can exclusively reveal.

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.