mathematics

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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

The president said economists are “simply sociologists who know a little bit of mathematics, nothing more,” referring to Velarde after he warned of the downsides of jacking up public worker payments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

“Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous: literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics and history.”

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

A woman grandmaster - the highest female-only chess title - Zhou was pursuing a degree in economics and mathematics at the University of Toronto at the time.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

For five days, girls in fourth grade through seventh grade from all over Brevard County learned all kinds of neat stuff about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas