mathematics

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Simon Broucke didn’t expect to use his mathematics degree for his music assistant job at “Masquerade,” the new interactive revival of “The Phantom of the Opera” in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The mathematics are proprietary, but Hassibi said the effect was much like compressing a digital photograph without losing visual fidelity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

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

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Lovelace was taught science and mathematics from a young age, at the insistence of her mother Anne Isabella Milbanke - a rare thing for women at that time.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Poncelet’s mathematics was the culmination of the work begun by the artists and architects of the fifteenth century, like Filippo Brunelleschi and Leonardo da Vinci, who discovered how to draw realistically—in perspective.

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