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The Pedagogy Behind Jewish STEM

Across the past two centuries, Jews have been over-represented in science, mathematics, and applied technology at rates that have resisted the standard sociological explanations.…

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The Man Who Solved Poincaré

Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman was born in Leningrad in 1966 to Jewish parents, won the International Mathematical Olympiad with a perfect score as a teenager,…

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Why So Many Jews in STEM?

Jews make up roughly 0.2 percent of the world’s population, but they have won about 22 percent of all Nobel Prizes, 24 percent of…

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