mathematics

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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 president said economists are “simply sociologists who know a little bit of mathematics, nothing more,” referring to Velarde after he warned of the downsides of jacking up public worker payments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

He won a scholarship to Eton College after attending a state primary school, and studied mathematics at Pembroke College, Oxford.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Levi is not a medical doctor, instead his background is in mathematics and operations research and he also served as an intelligence officer of the elite Israeli Intelligence Corps.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

It would be little comfort to Cantor that his work was the foundation of a whole new branch of mathematics: set theory.

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