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Yasha Ayari Asley (born 2003) of Iranian descent; from Leicester, United Kingdom, is a British mathematics child prodigy. At eight years old, he is the youngest person in the world to have achieved grade A at Mathematics A-level, scoring 100% and 99% in two of the six papers. ==School== Yasha attended a state school, F... |
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The Computing of Magic Squares
Algorithms that add up to magic
Magic Squares are simple mathematical curios.
They are just grids of numbers but with the magical property
that their rows, columns and diagonals add up to the same total.
The earliest known is from China and dates back ... |
*why we started studying the original problem (which was only remotely related to what the actual paper was about)
*how the mathematics we had done turned into a first version of the paper
*what the referees had to say
*how we addressed the referees' concerns
*what they had to say about the revision, and
*how the paper... |
Right kind of science
Most of us divide a pizza using straight cuts that all meet in the middle. But what if the centre of the pizza has a topping that some people would rather avoid, while others desperately want crust for dipping?
Mathematicians had come up with a recipe for slicing – formally known as a monohedral... |
Holtz - The Beauty of Mathematics
🛈⏬Ein Porträt der Mathematikerin Olga Holtz, Professorin für angewandte Mathematik in Berlin. Dieses Video wurde produziert für WeltWissen - 300 Jahre Wissenschaften in Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, von uncertainty-film, d2010. the To Get Better At Math: Cures For Math Suckage
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The Philosophy of Chemicals
"We've just got to decide: is a chemical like a city or like a number?" I spent my day yesterday—as I have for much of the past 30 years—designing new features of the Wolfram Language. And yesterday afternoon one of my meetings was a fast-paced discussion about how to extend the chemistry c... |
Mathematics | GyanTemple - Online Educational Magazine
The SI base unit for time is the SI second. From the second, larger units such as the minute, hour and day are defined, though they are "non-SI" units because they do not use the decimal system, and also because of the occasional need for a leap second. They are, ... |
How to Use Math In Decorating Your Home
At first glance, it may be difficult to understand the correlation between math and decor in the home. But if you dig a little deeper, you'll learn the secret of using mathematics to beautify your space. To begin, look at the math applied to Greek architecture or the works of Le... |
Top Ten Greatest Numbers
Darrell
Numbers aren't just numbers. OK, maybe they are, but even a non-math geek can think they're pretty awesome.
The Top Ten
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If you people see in football, the great Ronaldo's Jersey number is 7.. And if we take a look at cricket, the captain cool MS Dhoni's Jersey number is also 7. W... |
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Many of us have likely seen the movieFlatland and/or read the book back in high school. This is a classic book that tells the story of flatlanders, who live on a two-dimensional world, only to be visited by SPherius, who shows two mathematicians of Flatland the 3rd dimension. It is such a creat... |
Dedekind and Cauchy's legacy will live on for thousands of years, Troll Boy. And your, ahem... "legacy?" You will be forgotten the day you stop posting here.
You have repeatedly claimed here to be "the greatest mathematician ever," but in your Wacky New Calclueless, you cannot even determine the derivative of function... |
From a formal point of view, Skrjabin's invention seems to be rather weak, with
frequent repetitions of phrases or of whole sections. Yet, what is necessary is
not to dwell upon this first impression, but to try and verify whether the use
of repetitive and often symmetrical forms mightcome from a possible hidden struct... |
Math Expands: Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
In his book Hyperspace
physics professor Michio Kaku
introduces readers to phenomena that occur in ten or twenty-six dimensions.
To prepare for this leap into higher space, he invites his audience to
imagine the plight of a two-dimensional creature trying to understand the
third ... |
Imaginary volume
Imaginary numbers enable one to envision a lot of ideas. But what kind of numbers/algebras would enable us to work with imaginary volumes? Volumes, by definition, always seem to be positive, since any cubes are. What kind of numbers would give/allow a more complex picture? |
"You have given him dominion over the works of your hands." - Psalm 8:6
Monday, October 6, 2008
Scripture is integral to our math and science class
The Bible and mathematics & science compliment each other well. At the ACSI convention I had the pleasure of speaking to a little over 30 people who were interested in t... |
What is the Mandelbrot set?
When I came acros images like those displayed above or those zoom movies you can see
on youtube i was wondering for a long time: What is this and how is it made? So i decided
to look into it. I knew math was involved to somehow generate these cool images but not
much more. It turns out that... |
Attempting to add another piece to Real World Mathematics.
= = = = =
A couple years ago I decided that I was using the 'A but B so C' structure WAY too often in my writing, and tried to control it. But when I tried to look for an example just now, I couldn't find one. So my caution must have been misplaced.
Wait! There... |
Overview Noted as a founder of information theory, Claude Shannon combined mathematical theories with engineering principles to set the stage for the development of the digital computer. The term bit, today used to describe individual units of information processed by a computer, was coined from Shannons research in th... |
According to Wired.com, "the group's 3-D project allows surfers to navigate, save and share a strange universe of mathematical equations, geometric shapes and evocative illustrations. It's a head trip made more poignant by the pop-hop balladry of Broken Bells' haunting new single." |
Sue Baker's view...
To the mathematically challenged, anything that can make the subject accessible and – dare I say it interesting, is to be welcomed which is why I've included Number Freak. Here you will find the maths but also every other aspect of number use in time, sport, history, games and language. Lots of tri... |
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Platonic Polyhedrals
A few weeks ago I found out that Blender comes with a script for generating various types of regular solids and decided to try it out when I got the chance. Being (a) a mathematician, and (b) a geek (not necessarily in that order), I opted to check out the Platonic solids b... |
Mandelbrot Set Exhibit
(Fractals)
The Mandelbrot set is an immensely complicated set of points in the complex
plane that is defined by a very simple computational procedure. To define
the Mandelbrot set, let c be a complex number, and consider the function
f(z) = z2 + c. Now, iterate the
function from a starting valu... |
Monday, March 5, 2012
art picture for the day 2/ Thales of Miletus
This is a 2nd century A.d. copy of a Greek original. Well, one could certainly be skeptical of whether this gives a genuine picture of what Thales looked like. There's similar 2nd century Roman copies of Greek originals of Pythagoras, Plato, and even ... |
Category: Mathematics
Yes, it is correct mathematicians think differently and extraordinarily. It is expected of them as traditional approach will lead to traditional results and halt the process of evolution of new results and formulae. It reminds me of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, sometimes referred to as Princeps m... |
In the famous Fibonacci sequence, each number in the sequence is the sum of the previous two. It begins with 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and continues so on. When you take two successive numbers in this sequence, their ratio is very close to 1.618, which is called the golden ratio. The Fibonacci sequence and the g... |
Go Figure
Suddenly, Math And Science Are Hot Topics For Movie Drama
February 17, 2002|By MALCOLM JOHNSON; Courant Film Critic
Against the golden Princeton light, the man in the rumpled suit stands at the leaded mullioned window, crayoning strange numbers and symbols onto the diamond panes. Later, on a visit to a sec... |
4/4/16 Marks a Rare & Radical Math Holiday!
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4/4/16 is Square Root Day! Square Root Days occur when the month (4) and the day (4) are both equal to the square root of the year (16).
The square of a number is the product of the number times itself. The number that is multiplied by itself is call... |
Tag: Logarithm
Logarithms are very useful for lengthy calculation. There are two types of logs: (1) log (2) ln (Natural log) (1) The base is 10 in log (2) The base is e in natural log Here, we will discuss the properties of log. Some important properties with example are given below: If then NOTE: Example 1: […]
As t... |
Staff: Mentor
Yes, there is. Just because a certain theorem happens to be true whether it's been found or not, it doesn't mean that it can't be discovered. "Discover" in this case simply means that you are the first human being to stumble upon it. |
The history of efforts to determine an accurate value for the constant we now know as
is almost as long as the history of civilization itself. By 2000 B.C. both the
Babylonians and the Egyptians knew to nearly two decimal places. The
Babylonians used, among others, the value and the Egyptians used . Not all ancient soc... |
For those mathematically inclined, a fractal is a graphic representation of a whole bunch of complex numbers. The numbers are plotted on a plane with the real-number component representing the distance left or right of the center, and the imaginary component representing the distance above or below the center.
For the... |
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3 copies 2Cob and lacunaries
3 different copies of 2Cob tangled at right angles with each other, and then
also where they're cut at cell boundaries, they've got associated lacunaries with them.
Also, you can only snap them together (like lego bricks) if the lacunaries match.... |
An in-depth look at the role of number as a bridge between Heaven and Earth
• Reveals the numerical code by which the ancients maintained high standards of art and culture
• Sets out the alchemical formulas for the fusion of elements and the numerical origins of various sacred names and numbers
• Describes the redis... |
School of Vedic Maths is an Institution that aims at eradicating the fear of Maths from the minds of students. The school facilitates 'discovery' of new techniques in calculations and creating the element of 'fun' while doing Maths. The emphasis is not to teach but to make the students learn on their own. When any subj... |
Month: September 2013
Bhaskaracharya-II (1114 – 1193 CE) was one of the greatest Mathematicians that India has every produced. One of his treatises was 'Lilavati' where he discusses various topics of mathematics. Below are a few links where we have made a presentation of different ways of multiplication discussed in L... |
June 3 – National Repeat Day
Most
of the websites that mention this day are pretty cutesy with the
write-ups...with lots of repetition like this:
It's
National Repeat Day!
It's
National Repeat Day!
And
the suggested "celebrations" seem sort of...umm...un-fun. Like I
read this suggestion: when you put your socks on,... |
Saturday, September 18, 2010
So, Bill and I met this afternoon and, if he remembers, I'll let him tell you how we got to this question.
Bill says that 3 times .33 equals one because of infinity. I say it is less than one given that my mathematical skill peaked prior to my voice changing.
Bill drew math stuff on a pi... |
Christ Consciousness Grid and the Platonic Solids
The planetary grid concept dates back to antiquity. Plato explained the grid as a synthesis of all the platonic solids. He also believed that Earth's basic structure was in an evolutionary process from the simplest geometric forms to more complex ones. There is evidenc... |
Draft paper
on geometry motivated by observation of tendrils that grow on a
California native plant known to hikers in coastal chaparral as
"California Manroot". (See related slide shows.)
The exercise of imagining how a
classic discovery in mathematics may have been made, though fanciful, can lead to
discoveries abou... |
4 dimensions
How do you calculate an object in 4 dimensions? Like the 4 dimensional cube. I understand that a point is the begining of a line and a line is the begining of a plane. From there a plane translates into a 3 dimensional object. A 3 dimensional object translates into a 4 dimensional thing... I am confused a... |
The Story of Maths - The Language of the Universe
Copyright: OU
In this opening programme Marcus du Sautoy looks at how fundamental mathematics is to our lives before exploring the mathematics of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece.
In Egypt he uncovers use of a decimal system based on ten fingers of the hand, the... |
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Preparing for Fibonacci Day: The (Other) Fibonacci Fraction
999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999 is an
interesting number.I could tell you
about some of the reasons it is interesting, but I really only want to focus on
one at a time.There is one interesting
property that you would not believe ... |
Download Archimedes: Mathematical Genius of the Ancient World by Mary Gow PDF
Download Archimedes: Mathematical Genius of the Ancient World by Mary Gow PDF
By Mary Gow
Grade 5-8 simply because additional info has survived approximately Archimedess contributions than approximately his lifestyles, such a lot of this e... |
The book is a welcome attempt to use insights from psychology and related fields – together with biographical examples – to explain how the minds of outstanding mathematicians work in order to come up with important mathematical breakthroughs. The first author, Michael Fitzgerald, is a psychoanalyst and professor of ps... |
Pi day is just another Hallmark holiday
Submitted by krm on Tue, 2017-03-14 6:00 AM
So, Johns Hopkins University Press asked me to write a blog post for Pi Day. Well . . . other than as a marketing tool for mathematics, Pi Day is a bit of a silly idea. So, I thought I'd tell you why, at least from the perspective of ... |
How can I learn Old Norse or Icelandic? Links to resources mentioned in this video: My playlist of Old Norse lessons: The website of the Viking Society for...
Pi hiding in prime regularities A story of pi, prime numbers, and complex numbers, and how number theory braids them together. Check out Remix careers: The fa... |
Amazing Video Shows How Beautifully Math Translates Into Life
Mathematics has
changed the course of human historycountless times. It's easy to forget how
much of what we see every day can be described by a series of
symbols and relationships.
A video titled
"Beauty of Mathematics" from Yann Pineill and Nicolas
Lefauc... |
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Six types of Ruled Surfaces
Scrolls, or ruled surfaces, are surfaces generated by straight lines or rulings and
have been studied for centuries by geometers such as the Jesuits Roger Boscovich and Andre
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After arriving from my one week holiday abroad, I thought I'd write a bit of a fun post inspired by an article I read on mymordernmet about math cakes.
Dinara Kasko, former architect who is now a baker, has created a series of cakes inspired by art and mathematics. Whilst Kasko employs fascinating processes... |
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Physicists have searched for deviations from standard quantum mechanics, testing whether quantum mechanics requires a more complex set of mathematical rules. To do so a research team led by Philip Walther at the University ...
Researchers modelled learning and visual search and predic... |
Mathematics: a skill for every career
Note: The following is based using statistics in the USA however, the same technology is applied here in Ireland.
At UPS, the average driver makes about 120 deliveries per day, says Jack Levis, the shipping giant's director of process management. To figure out how many different ... |
Lewis Richardson (1881-1953) was a meteorlogist
in Britain. A man of wide interests and abilities, he made contributions
to science in the areas of meteorology, fluid dynamics, fractals and
chaos theory .During World War I, he served for France in their medical
corps and saw first hand the horrors of warfare. After the... |
Mathematicians: Masterminds or Maniacs?
Everyone knows about famous math concepts like the Pythagorean Theorem and Newton's Laws of Motion, but what about the people who discovered them? I'm sure you've heard of Isaac Newton and Pythagoras, but did you know that Newton was known for his bad temper, or that Pythagoras ... |
Template:Cover abstract/Conservapedia:Conservapedian mathematics
The folks who create Conservapedia's "content" sometimes go off in fascinating directions other than the usual relentless attacks against anything that doesn't fit their strange, right-wing fundamentalist mindset.
In the case of articles relating to sci... |
Mathematical Adventures in Wonderland
What happens when a Lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford takes delight in wordplay puzzles, wants to entertain children with stories, and does not like the new developments in the mathematics of his age? Why, you get the wonderful Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking... |
Whee. The Fibonacci sequence has been noticed in the clustering of florets in some flowers. That's neat. It's just as neat as the phenomenon of pareidolia, which involves people spotting, say, images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary in tortillas, tree bark, or grilled cheese sandwiches. Just because you can sorta see someth... |
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I work as a mathematics teacher. I was a co-valedictorian of my graduating class. During my speech, I will never forget looking out at the audience. I could clearly see two of my math professors. The expressions on their faces made it clear that, aside from my parents, they were some of the p... |
Existentialism mathematics serves a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo in the mathematical realm.
New York, NY (PRWEB) June 30, 2010
In his latest papers Lithuanian mathematician at Vilnius University Algirdas Javtokas puts mathematical truths into question by discovering exis... |
Pi, and Mary Poppins
Yesterday we were watching Mary Poppins and we noticed something we hadn't noticed before. The most surprising thing is probably that is was my partner, not I, that noticed it. What she noticed can be seen here:
"Why have they got pi on that kite?" she asked.
I've been thinking about that questi... |
the concept
of symmetry
the function of harmonizing
the different elements into
a unitary whole
Symmetry considerations dominate modern fundamental physics, both
in quantum theory and in relativity. Philosophers are now beginning to
devote increasing attention to such issues as the significance of gauge
symmetry, quant... |
Why do you have to have high math credits for Computer Jobs?
II don't believe this to be the case at all. Mathematics is (at the end of the day) only adding and subtracting, nothing more. There are no starting or ending points in mathematics only a description of the differences between things. For instance it's not p... |
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July 01, 2008
I'M A NUMBERS GIRL
by Lynette Long
I'm a numbers girl, a plain old fashioned numbers girl. Not because I was on the math team in high school, yes, I know that was unusual back then, or because I broke 700 on the SAT and GRE math sections. It's not because I have a M... |
Pinwheel Calculators
The operating heart of a pinwheel calculator is a cylinder
made up of a series of disks or wheels stacked side by side.
Every wheel has a setting lever and a series of nine pins, each
of which can be made to protrude or retract according to the
position of the setting lever.
In the illustration, ... |
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
some funda and trivia
In 1961, a meteorologist was working on a weather prediction problem using a computer that modeled the weather on 12 basic equations. Once he tried to see the weather sequence by starting out in the middle rather than the beginning. The sequence evolved differently becaus... |
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When people don't believe something, they say it will happen "when pigs fly!" Well, you just may see a few pigs flying at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta this week. Read on to be lifted up, up, and away with the math in this hot air balloon festival!
If you've ever played with Legos, you k... |
If you're human, you can do math.
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Once upon a time, calculator and computer were job titles: you could earn a living if you knew how to find or . Today, these tasks can be performed by cell phone apps or the navigation bar of your web browser, and with only a little searching, you can answer the question "Write... |
History of Mathematical Puzzles
This is a strand paper…part 1 of eventually 4 parts.
I have included a copy of the rubric that needs to be met for this paper.
Please make sure to follow the rubric, use APA style, and utilize the topics I gave.
These are the ones that I told my teacher I would be using.
-History of mat... |
Found in Translation
Translation Image
by Tony Moore
Leonhard Euler was an 18th-century Swiss mathematician who often wrote complex mathematical equations and usually surrounded them with exceedingly long and complex sections of prose. He wrote around 850 such works, most of them in German or (gasp!) Latin. So getti... |
When you throw a ball or Frisbee, it usually only comes back to you if you're playing catch with somebody (or fetch with your dog). But a boomerang is different and will return to you on its own! Read on to find out how it works, and go flying with the boomerang math.
This yummy-looking creation is made with chocolate... |
Media Hunt #1: Chaotic Spirals
These pictures are from Wolfram Demonstrations Project ( They are demonstrations of what J.P. Davis explains in his book Spirals: From Theodorus to Chaos. Essentially, the spirals are created by plugging in complex numbers for a and b. When a=1 and b=i, you get the discrete spiral. Howev... |
If you have little kids and you've been privy to an episode of Team Umizoomi, then perhaps the title of this post evoked a little jingle in your head. You're welcome; I'm here all day.
My daughter, although she doesn't choose Umizoomi over Mickey Mouse as often as I'd like, picked up on patterns relatively quickly aft... |
Kantgirl: Just say "I'm feminine and I'll punch anyone who says otherwise!"
Halla74: Think your way through the world. Feel your way through life.
My kids were talking about pemdas and I'm like... Nooo it's order of difficulty/order you are taught how to do the math. If I try to remember stuff with acronyms I spend th... |
Surely the ratio wouldn't be pi as the diameter would be greater? I'm probably imagining it wrong but I'm thinking of a circle on a spherical manifold, the 'circle' would no longer be 2D, it would appear to be concave/convex if the shape was visualised in Euclidian space, similar to a shallow dish if you will. This cou... |
The Lost Symbol of DC | Robert Homrich
The Lost Symbol of DC | Robert Homrich
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code opened the world's minds to magic in the street plans of DC; Would you like to know the truth? Backed by the longstanding principles and understandings of mathematics, geometry, astrology, a... |
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Ever wanted to build a fully artificially intelligent robot as a kid? I did.
So now that you're older, why not use the OpenCourseWare materials at MIT? They have a complete Artificial Intelligence course online. Not only that, but they also have an online tutor that's available for anyo... |
The infinite symmetric Pascal matrix Q is given by where entry in Q is . (Note that we begin indexing the matrix with 0, not 1, in keeping with the way Pascal's triangle is usually indexed.) The purpose of this post is to … Continue reading →
Recently in my advanced calculus class one of my students asked a (perhaps t... |
No. With the exception of INTJ. NFs and SPs don't alow junk to cloud their mathmatical minds. Junk like other NT interests/blips. As an NT (not speaking for all, damit) i aced all that calculus geo math crap. But never saw math for what it is. Saw it as like a foreign language the mothership brought to earth in blips t... |
How my Ancestors used Operational Research
A
few years ago, I taught a course module called "Graphs, Networks and
Algorithms". It was generally known as
GNA. As part of the module, I created
four spoof interviews with people who might have used the mathematical
techniques of GNA at four times in history or prehistory.... |
Category: Math
Square root of two as an irrational number
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB
edited by Mr. Michael Hernandez MA
When Lonergan discusses inverse insight in the first chapter of his Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, he presents a mathematical example to illustrate the nature of inverse insight as an act... |
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Mathematics, imagination and reality. The legacy of Emma Castelnuovo
Mathematics, imagination and reality. The legacy of Emma Castelnuovo
Last April 13, Emma Castelnuovo, aged 100, a leading mathematics educator, passed away. In order to present the legacy of Emma Castelnuovo's thought, ResearchIt... |
A Piece of Pi, or a Trillion?
Happy Pi Day! In honor of the trillion-digit ratio of a circle's circumference, I bring you a piece of Pi in the form of this card.
A few facts—did you know the symbol for Pi (π) was first used in 1737 by Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler? And that the value of Pi rounds up to 3.14159? T... |
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MODEL RELEASED. Henri Poincare (1854-1912), French mathematician. Poincare made contributions to all fields of mathematics and is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. His work on the three-body problem (determining the motions of three bodies in space, each influence... |
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Related Rates and Crowd Sourcing
Year Six of teaching this pickle of a topic in Calculus. I keep changing it up hoping I'll happen upon the magic elixir that will allow students to eagerly gobble up the problems and spit out the correct answers with joy and understanding oozing out of thei... |
I know. I've been living from about 3 years squinting thinking it was just normal because things we're too far, or when I'm in the computer I thought that it was logical if I was far from the screen I wasn't going to be able to see the screen because the text is small. Went to finally get an eye exam and the optometris... |
A defense of the long division algorithm
March 13, 2011
I recently had a short online debate with an economist about the value of teaching long division. I then tossed the discussion to my students in my Math for Elementary School Teachers class. A lively discussion ensued and here are my final thoughts.
"I promised... |
Koch Snowflake & Fractals
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Von Koch Snowflake 4.It has a Hausdorff dimension which is greater than its topological dimension (although this requirement is not met by space-filling curves such as the Hilbert curve). 1.It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small sca... |
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Imagining Archimedes
Welcome to Imagining Archimedes ! This blog has two main purposes, firstly, to celebrate the beauty and power of mathematics and, secondly, to provide an online service to first year engineering students studying mathematics (the subjects I teach at Swinburne University ... |
10. (6 × 9) + (6 + 9) = 69.
11. We tend to think of odd numbers as male and even numbers as female.
This ancient belief was tested by James Wilkie and Galen Bodenhausen of Northwestern University. In his latest book, Alex Bellos writes: "They showed respondents randomly assigned pictures of the faces of young babies,... |
Mesmeric geometrics
Math is beautiful, right? So are geometrics! Mesmeric, enchanting and chic! Maybe not to such an extent as the Queen of the Sciences, but still I'm dazzled. I'm pretty sure pictures below undeniably prove I'm right! |
Stan Tenen – Squaring the Circle: The One & the Many, Mind & World
Stan Tenen – Squaring the Circle: The One & the Many, Mind & World
Here is an unexpected philosophical solution to the central mathematical riddle of the ancient world: Is there a way to express the transcendental – Pi – relationship between the radiu... |
By implementing the
Proof by 9 System™, you will be able to easily adapt the second
system, which is the MaXima System™. This system will allow you to
check all your multiplication and division solutions in a quick, easy
and fun way!" Jose Paul Moretto explains in his book, Fear No
Numbers – How to Multiply or Divide &... |
Long perplexed by the melodic pandemonium of church bells, I follow bell ringer Ken Hartnett through a little door in the side of Christ Church Cathedral. We climb an ancient stone staircase, traverse a vertiginous roof-bridge and make our way into the bell tower, where a campanology rehearsal is in full clamour.
A fr... |
Recently at the Girls' Angle club, a girl asked: Has the Pythagorean theorem been proven?
That was a terrific question! Unfortunately, I didn't have time to discuss it as well or as fully as I would have liked. A lot of math hovers around it, so I decided to amplify my in-club remarks in a blog post.
First, there's a... |
About my Reed (undergrad) thesis
November 1, 2009
As an undergrad math major I wrote a senior thesis called "The Abelian Group Structure on Elliptic Curves Saved My Life!" Sadly, I no longer have an electronic copy of my thesis. (I know, what a blithering idiot. But it was in the mid-1990s, before people kept everyth... |
Take a piece of paper. Now try to fold it in half more than 7 times. Is it possible? This leads into the problem: what is the ultimate number of folds a flat piece of material can achieve? This image shows Britney Gallivan's success at folding a sheet 12 times.
Basic Description
The bedsheet problem is an urban legen... |
Like elliptic curves and modular forms -- or a 340-year-old mathematical puzzle and online shopping. Just ask mathematics and statistics professor Henri Darmon.
According to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Darmon's work on elliptic curves has "gained him recognition as one of the world's leading... |
It's Pi Day: Time To Get Your Math On!
DETROIT (WWJ) – It's March 14 and Pi Day is being celebrated in and around math classes across the continents.
You don't have to be a nerdy techie to celebrate but it may have a little more meaning. March 14 translates to 3/14 and the natural extension to the mathematical repres... |
Mathematics, a limited science
A guy buys a chocolate that costs 1$, and another guys buy another chocolate that costs 1$ and you'd think they both have 2 chocolates, but they don't.
'2 chocolates' means nothing as the chocolate one bought and the chocolate the other bought are not necessarily the same. They might be... |
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