I am not a sports fan, and even less a football fan, but I am a numbers guy. That means when the Super Bowl comes around, I’m less interested in highlight reels and more interested in what the odds ...
Math isn’t just assignments and deadlines – it can be playful, creative and enjoyable as a puzzle or a game. That’s the spirit of what University of Virginia School of Data Science master’s student ...
Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from water pressure to oxygen levels in human tissues. The trajectory of a storm ...
Health care has dominated recent coverage in the Spectator. First came the cancellation of the neonatal intensive care expansion at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, followed by news of staff layoffs.
The recent Opinion column from Veronique De Rugy is problematic with the conclusions guiding younger generation in its assumptions that the Baby Boomers are taking excessive payouts from Social ...
It’s not surprising to read how incoming college freshman cant do basic math. Its been going on for years. America is in a science/technological race with China and we are more focused on worthless ...
When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...
Math enthusiasts would love to check out Google today! Wondering why? Well, it seems like the homepage is celebrating a widely used formula; ax2+bx+c=0! Nerdy enough to understand which equation this ...
Re: “Checking our math” (Oct. 19, Opinion): Math is a tool. For example, it is the basis for understanding the turn of a screw, the force and angle demanded to hammer a nail, the measurement required ...
In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...