Hundreds gathered on Saturday, May 16, at the University of Vermont for the 2026 commencement. Bagpipes, smiles, and cheers.

A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The "prisoner's dilemma" is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. For decades, this game has been used to explain why selfishness often beats cooperation. In the prisoner's dilemma, two players ...

Making demographic comparisons across datasets and across time requires rigor and consistency in group definitions. Without this, one risks reporting change that is not real. Since some of our ...

Since its proclamation by UNESCO in 2019, the International Day of Mathematics has been celebrated annually to raise global awareness of the essential role that mathematics and mathematics education ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

For many of us, mathematics was not a subject to love—it was a subject to pass so we could progress to the next academic stage. Through years of conversations with executives, educators, parents, and ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. A set-off clause allows a lender to deduct funds from a borrower's accounts if the borrower ...

Abstract: Grey mathematics is the mathematical foundation of the grey system theory. Recently, some important results have been achieved. In order to accelerate the development of grey mathematics, ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...