mathematics

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The preference from his mother was always that Pellegrino Matarazzo would use his degree in applied mathematics to go get a job in finance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

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

He won a scholarship to Eton College after attending a state primary school, and studied mathematics at Pembroke College, Oxford.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

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

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Nowadays the great unsolved problems in mathematics are stated in terms of conjectures that mathematicians are unable to prove.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife