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 ...

Optical illusions are the internet’s favorite pastime. These puzzles challenge one’s observation skills and focus. A new optical illusion on Reddit has stumped the internet. Posted on the subreddit ...

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 ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A line of best fit is a form of regression analysis that shows the relationship ...

Saturday was a chaotic day in the American League playoff picture, but the Seattle Mariners were unquestionably winners in the equation. For the second straight day, the Mariners took down the Houston ...

Linear graphs are straight-line graphs that visually represent a constant rate of change in the relationship between two variables, showing how one changes in response to the other. They are expressed ...

Straight Line Was A Lie, the latest long-player from New Zealand power-pop masters the Beths, is out this week. They've been sharing gems from the record for months now, including "Metal," "No Joy," ...

A mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an easier way to solve quadratic equations. The mathematician hopes this method will help students avoid memorizing obtuse formulas. His ...

The word correlation is used in everyday life to denote some form of association. We might say that we have noticed a correlation between foggy days and attacks of wheeziness. However, in statistical ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Abstract: Maxwell's stress equation for electrostatics identifies a tensile stress in the direction of the electric field and a pressure normal to this direction. For an isolated, spherically ...