A decade-long slide in high schoolers' reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders ...

The inspiration for this column comes not from the epic 1999 film The Matrix, as the title may suggest, but from an episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast that I listened to over the summer. The ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Skibidi, broligarchy, inspo, delulu, and more terms have officially joined the Cambridge Dictionary in its growing list of new 2025 words. Some of the dictionary’s latest inclusions, which you can now ...

Picture a tune that plays with your mind. It does not go straight but skips and flips in ways you do not expect. That is math rock. It avoids common music paths, which makes it feel fresh and smart.

Exponential growth compounds investment returns over time, enhancing long-term wealth. S&P 500's historic 10% annual return illustrates exponential growth's impact on investments. Staying invested in ...

Last winter, at a meeting in the Finnish wilderness high above the Arctic Circle, a group of mathematicians gathered to contemplate the fate of a mathematical universe. It was minus 20 degrees Celsius ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

The Einstein Chair Mathematics Seminar is concentrated on the relationship between algebraic topology and quantum field theory. This is like the opposite of JFK's famous saying "Ask not what your ...

Contributed by Nils C. Stenseth, December 1, 2017 (sent for review September 12, 2017; reviewed by David C. Krakauer and Günter P. Wagner) We first provide the basic dynamic model, a mathematical ...