The Latest Breaking News from Math

While Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) has been a surprise winner of the broader tech ecosystem, it's unavoidable that the semiconductor giant represents a form of moral hazard, at least in the classical economic sense. Left to its own devices, Intel has struggled badly relative to its peers. However, thanks to the…

The idea of getting rich slowly isn’t flashy—but it’s far more realistic than most people think. While headlines often glorify crypto millionaires or startup investors, many wealthy individuals quietly build fortunes through consistency, patience, and discipline. Investing in safe, boring funds doesn’t make for exciting dinner conversation, but it offers…

Retirement math gets trickier when you're 50, your job's at risk, and the numbers no longer add up the way they used to. That's exactly where one Reddit user found themselves — sitting on $1 million in savings, an $80,000 mortgage, and a growing sense that time was running out.

Casino game odds tell an interesting story about human psychology. Players don’t always process these numbers as intended; instead, perception, emotion, and cognitive shortcuts push decision-making in directions that the raw math alone wouldn’t predict.

Retirement used to mean stability, but for millions of seniors, the math no longer works. Rising housing, healthcare, and grocery costs are outpacing Social Security...

Twenty years ago, a teenager could work a part-time job and walk away with more than gas money. Today, the math doesn't add up the same way. That was the realization of one parent on r/MiddleClassFinance who compared their own paycheck at 16 to their daughter's today — and the…

The math is very simple for everyone below the cutoff

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained without this tool. The calculations using virtual particles predict the bizarre behavior of subatomic particles with such uncanny accuracy that some scientists…

Tom Peters, guitarist for UK math-rock heroes Alpha Male Tea Party, reckons that while we’re losing back pain in reducing the physical weight of our rigs, we’re causing ourselves creative self-harm