For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus. In a recent national survey of 133 admissions officers, 74% said the ...

The totality of an asset’s fundamentals constitute its earning power, which in turn is the source of its value. That’s what an asset’s price is: the consensus view of investors regarding its ...

The work reported in this note was done while the author was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation on leave of absence from the University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. This work was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

For some high school students, statistics and other data science courses have unseated calculus as the de facto option for pursuing advanced math, in part due to targeted state efforts to expand ...

One of the landmarks of Kyoto, the home of Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, is the Kamo River. At certain points, there are stepping stones that allow residents to cross the river away from ...

This important study introduces a fully differentiable variant of the Gillespie algorithm as an approximate stochastic simulation scheme for complex chemical reaction networks, allowing kinetic ...

Researchers and enthusiasts have been fascinated by the challenge of reverse-engineering complex behaviors that emerge from simple rules in cellular automata for decades. Traditionally, this field ...

The link between good oral health and general health isn't a far-fetched notion. There's many pieces about how your teeth can tell you a lot about the rest of your body. For example, poor oral hygiene ...

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