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John Nash and Von Neumann

In 1949, John Nash, then a young doctoral student at Princeton, approached John von Neumann to discuss a new idea about non-cooperative games. He went...

I don't understand how axioms work.

I apologize if this is a stupid question, I'm in high school and have no formal training in mathematics. I watched a Veritasium video about...

What's with the bearish attitude on job prospects for math degrees?

Virtually every job posting I see for data professionals mentions a bachelor's in pure or applied math as one of the preferred degrees, along with...

How did the scientist figure out all those complicated functions??

I am in high school, and just recently I encountered all sorts of strange equation and functions in math and other subjects like chemistry. They often...