Chad Aldeman’s March 16 op-ed, “When high school grads can’t do math,” focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore. There is no discussion of inputs, namely the resources needed to ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Four days into war with Iran, at least one of the United States’ Gulf allies is already running low on crucial interceptor munitions used to defend against Iranian missile and drone attacks, two ...

While taking Interstate 15 to work recently I saw a speeding driver without a license plate narrowly avoid sideswiping another vehicle. Sights like this have become “normal” since I moved to Nevada, ...

SYDNEY--Australia's inflation remained elevated in January, stoking speculation that interest rates will need to be raised much further. Consumer prices rose 3.8% in January from a year earlier, ...

The President’s proposal to cap credit card rates at a maximum of 10% over the next year has gotten a lot of attention in the midst of a national affordability crisis. It’s understandable. Rates are ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The Collatz Conjecture is defined by a rule simple enough for a child to follow. No matter what number you start with, the process always appears to end the same way — and it has never been observed ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

The demand for hedging the Japanese yen against the US dollar is increasing, and it may be the first sign that rising rates in Japan are beginning to affect the carry trade. Rates in Japan have risen ...