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Piney Chapel Elementary receives statewide recognition
WHNT-TV Huntsville· 7 hours agoA Limestone County school is helping students make connections between the mathematics they learn in the classroom and its application to their daily lives.
ExxonMobil Foundation gives millions to Khan Academy for single largest curriculum yet - Houston...
The Business Journals· 14 hours agoWith the ExxonMobil Foundation’s investment, Khan Academy will launch its largest curriculum yet,...
Jim Simons, Groundbreaking Quantitative Hedge Fund Founder Who Provided Exceptional Returns For...
Benzinga· 6 days agoJim Simons, a titan in the world of finance, mathematics and philanthropy, died in New York City on...
Random processes shape science and math: Researchers propose a unified, probabilistic framework
Phys.org· 7 days agoAccording to our current science, this question concerning physical phenomena should be answered by sampling from a probability distribution, a process not unlike spinning a roulette wheel or ...
Math Olympian in Shadow of John Nash Tries to Solve Blockchain, AI Trust Dilemma
Coindesk· 7 days agoHyperbolic, the two-year-old startup focused on decentralized AI computing, said that it is...
500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks
New Scientist· 6 days agoA centuries-old maths problem asks what shape a circle traces out as it rolls along a line. The...
One Alabama school district’s uncommon approach to boosting math scores: ‘Confidence in the room’
Birmingham News· 2 days agoCorner Middle School math teacher Zach Weldon had planned for the chaos of 24 students racing to...
Jim Simons, billionaire hedge fund manager, math whiz and philanthropist, dies at 86
New York Post· 6 days agoOver a 10-year period, Simons gave Stony Brook nearly $600...Simons, who have an estimated net worth...
Jim Simons, billionaire hedge fund founder, dies at 86
CNN Business via AOL· 6 days agoJim Simons, the billionaire investor, mathematician and philanthropist, died on Friday in New York...
‘Quant King’ Jim Simons was a math and investing genius, but also a management wiz. Here are some of...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 5 days agoWhile his trading and quantitative analysis strategies have been heavily scrutinized, he has also...