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Chris Gallant, CFA, is a senior manager of interest rate risk for ATB Financial with 10 years of experience in the financial markets. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

If you would make a graph of the official averages for a full year, you would see a nice smooth line that bottoms out in mid-January and peaks in mid-July. On occasion someone will ask or write me ...

Marrying advanced math with standard blood-sugar tests, scientists have devised a more accurate way to measure three-month average blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. The new model offers a ...