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

Simon Broucke didn’t expect to use his mathematics degree for his music assistant job at “Masquerade,” the new interactive revival of “The Phantom of the Opera” in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

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

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Perhaps it was the old Jansenist antiscience creed that was building up in him, but for whatever the reason, Pascal’s newfound devotion led him to abandon mathematics and science altogether.

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