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

The circular concept also works with numbers that loop like time on a clock, explained Dorian Goldfeld, a Columbia University mathematics professor.

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

Bear in mind that this is advanced mathematics; most of us will never need worry about the volume of old Greek men in the bath.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood