mathematics

Finance 'rock star' entertains with new book

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. So sang Mary Poppins, but as Schulich School of Business Professor of finance Moshe Milevsky says, his newest book uses the same principle to help people understand their finances. In what Milevsky calls a “very different book than what I usually write,” The 7 Most Important Equations […]

Education Professor finds 40-something women outperform classmates in math

Now there’s another kind of prowess achieved by women in their 40s that men peak at earlier in life, wrote the Toronto Star March 10. Math. Not only do female math students outperform men at Ontario’s community colleges, but it’s the 40-something female multi-taskers juggling jobs, families and mortgages who edge out their classmates of […]