mathematics

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Recently I introduced this 90-year-old Mexican artist, Eduardo Terrazas, who really works a lot with mathematics, to the London-based mathematician, Marcus du Sautoy, and now they’re doing things together.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Before Reed Hastings revolutionized the global entertainment business, he sold Rainbow vacuum cleaners door-to-door during his gap year between high school and Bowdoin College, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

“Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous: literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics and history.”

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

It’s the branch of mathematics that analyzes randomness, uncertainty and the likelihood of certain outcomes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Nobody worried about dividing by zero when conveniently ignoring the rules of mathematics explained everything from the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets in the sky.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife