This week’s conversation is with Nevada attorney general Aaron Ford, the Democratic candidate for governor in the state. His ...

Learn how to evaluate numbers raised to rational powers. When given a number raised to a rational power, we take the nth root of the number where n is the number in the denominator of the rational ...

Irrational numbers such as pi or the square root of 2 have always fascinated humankind. After all, they symbolize infinity better than anything else: their sequence of digits after the decimal point ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Americans have a long history of being hurried into war on false pretexts. The “yellow press” encouraged a war fever in 1898 by blaming the sinking of the USS Maine on the Spanish, even though the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in the accounting and finance industries for more than 20 years. Her expertise covers a ...

I was first introduced to author Morgan Housel on an episode of Shane Parrish’s The Knowledge Project podcast in 2016. Both individuals are prolific thinkers who greatly influenced my approach to life ...

Harvey C. Mansfield, who retired in 2023 after 61 years on the Harvard faculty, is the best lecturer I’ve ever heard. When I was in graduate school two decades ago, attendance in his courses routinely ...

Mathematics students often encounter confusion when distinguishing between rational and irrational numbers. However, mastering this fundamental concept becomes straightforward once you understand the ...