Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.

Abstract: This paper takes the mathematical analysis course of a major in a university as the research object, selects the first semester academic performance of 90 students as the research data, uses ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Approval for Trump’s performance on the economy, once one of his strongest points, has sunk to 39%. Most voters ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

President Trump has floated 50-year mortgages as a way of improving housing affordability and bringing new life back to the deeply stuck market. The idea is drawing skepticism from financial experts ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Allan Brooks never set out to reinvent mathematics. But after weeks spent talking with ChatGPT, the 47-year-old Canadian came to believe he had discovered a new form of math powerful enough to take ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

Education reporters Annie Ma and Sharon Lurye noticed a study indicating girls’ math scores fell behind boys’ during the pandemic and continued to decline, reversing years of progress in addressing ...

When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...