In a famous theorem, known as Stolper-Samuelson, he and a co-author showed that competition from imports of clothes and similar goods from underdeveloped countries, where producers rely on unskilled ...

Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94. His death was announced ...

Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94. His death was announced ...

Jane H Stolper, age 101, died peacefully on December 7, 2025, after a remarkably productive and long life. Born on August 21, 1924, at University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, she was the daughter ...

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In ...

block-insertion-theorem is a reproducible reference implementation of a combinatorial result about block insertion and counting linear extensions of posets. The repository provides a formal JSON ...

A recent West Branch Times guest opinion, “In defense of Trump’s tariffs and trade policies,” by John Hendrickson is an example of ersatz economics written by someone who is not an economist and who ...

In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics began to crack. Einstein’s new theory of gravity seemed to imply that it should be possible to create and destroy energy, a result that threatened to ...

Cheryl Ann Samuelson, 79, passed away on January 17, 2025. Cheryl was born on January 27, 1945, to Jack and Arbell Sund. She is survived by her four children: Carmen Barkie, Erica Suzuki, Deidre Lake, ...

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson from Louisiana blew the math community away when they presented a solution to the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, an impossible feat for 2,000 years. They ...