Mathematics News

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.

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.