mathematics

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The preference from his mother was always that Pellegrino Matarazzo would use his degree in applied mathematics to go get a job in finance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 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

Lovelace was taught science and mathematics from a young age, at the insistence of her mother Anne Isabella Milbanke - a rare thing for women at that time.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

He’s entranced by physics and mathematics, by surgery and medicine, by philosophy and engineering.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day