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Quizlet is a multi-national American company that provides tools for studying and learning. [1] Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic ...
Starting in 2004, [7] Salman "Sal" Khan began tutoring one of his cousins in mathematics on the Internet using a service called Yahoo! Doodle Images. [8] After a while, Khan's other cousins began to use his tutoring service. Due to the demand, Khan decided to make his videos watchable on the Internet, so he published his content on YouTube. [9]
On January 17, 2019, McGraw Hill Education announced Reveal Math and Inspire Science, new curricula for K–12. [29] On May 1, 2019, McGraw-Hill Education announced an agreement to merge with Cengage. The merged company was expected to retain McGraw Hill as the corporate name. [30] [31] The merger was called off on May 1, 2020. [32]
Steven Henry Strogatz (/ ˈstroʊɡæts /; born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and author, and the Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics at Cornell University. [3][4] He is known for his work on nonlinear systems, including contributions to the study of ...
Martin Feldstein. Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010.
Pavel Grinfeld. Edward Packel. William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934 [1]) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing mathematics textbooks.
e. Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (/ dəˈɡreɪ /; born 20 April 1963) is an English biomedical gerontologist. He is the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). De Grey is known for his view that medical technology may enable human beings alive today not to die from age ...
James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. [4] At the time of his death, Simons' net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th-richest person in the world. [4] He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund ...