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Everything is a symbol, and symbols can combine to form patterns. Patterns are beautiful and revelatory of larger truths. These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism, Ho...
What is CATS CATS reinvents mathematics as a natural science about the natural fact MANY. What do we do when we meet MANY? Two things, first we Count, then we Add, and we do that where we live, in Time and Space. So this approach can be called the CATS-approach to mathematics: Count&Add in Time&Space. Counting sticks...
Puzzles have long been a source of motivation for the exploration of mathematical concepts, theory, and computation. Multimedia adventure games with creative storylines, movies, sophisticated graphics, and sound, are the modern context for both new and classic puzzles. We will show how some of these puzzles can be mode...
Pure Mathematics "The abstraction level I find very appealing, but also, that it's possible to really understand. One moment, you have no clue what some piece of mathematics is saying or how it's working, and suddenly there's like this neurological shift and it clicks into place. Then, not only do you understand it, b...
The Julia set depicted on the stamp is a fractal whose dimensions are between 1 and 2, a fractal being a shape of fractional dimension. The first fractal was defined in the 19th century by George Cantor, while Felix Housdorff defined "fractional dimension' more precisely in 1918. The term "fractal" was coined in the 6...
Infinity has been getting a bad reputation recently. It has become the sticking point in the story we tell ourselves about reality. The trouble begins with a split between what is real and what is unreal. If you send someone to the store to buy three apples, and they return with only one, it matches reality to say, "yo...
Thursday, October 31, 2013 Homer Simpson is brilliant. I didn't understand half the shit they were talking about until they explained it, but it's an incredibly cool read. And to think that that donut-munching bozo that became the template for Peter Griffin and every other cartoon sitcom is secretly a math genius... ...
Pythagoras biographical facts Date:19.01.2017, 06:57 He once talked to an ox and persuaded it never to eat beans again! We do not know what Pythagoras really looked like. Facts about Pythagoras are difficult to state with certainty. Pythagoreans also believed in the cosmos, which at that time referred to an idea of a ...
The Controversy of Calculus calculus. All right, here is how I feel about calculus: If when youThis is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise. say calculus you mean the most difficult math class, the bane of existence, the throbbing headache of confusion, that defeats social lives, demolishes sle...
Nothing could be more distinctive of the age in which we live than the overpowering prominence of mathematics. All through the Catholic centuries, arithmetic and geometry constituted all the mathematics that an educated Christian was asked to learn. Even these two subjects were treated from a more contemplative point o...
General Science, Mathematics, and Technology Mathematics When did the concept of square root originate? A square root of a number is a number that, when multiplied by itself, equals the given number. For instance, the square root of 25 is 5 (5 × 5 = 25). The concept of the square root has been in existence for many ...
Oughtred - A great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics Author: Cajori, Florian Oughtred - A great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics" *** This book is indexed by ISYS Web Indexing system to allow the reader find any word or number within the document. WILLIAM OUGHTRED WILLIAM OUGHTRED A GREAT SEVENTEENT...
Geometry Homepage - ThinkQuest 1997 Illustrated tutorials on many aspects of geometry, including: triangular geometry, the Pythagorean Theorem, polygonal geometry, polyhedra, and non-Euclidean geometry. Also includes a list of important geometric formulas. ...more>> geometry-institutes - Math Forum A discussion group ...
Looking at Old Math With New Eyes About two months ago, I signed up for Quora. Its been interesting following the questions and answers there, whether I agree with the most popular answers or not. I feel that I get more information the questions the answers. What people are curious about, and willing to ask anonymousl...
720 has great potential when interpreted as the USADP=m/d of July 20, the UKDP equivalent of which is written as 20 July (20/7). The significance of 207 is its foundation, the numerical challenges recognised and put in place centuries ago1840 was the year of The Royal Marriage between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, ...
E L E A R N VUE FINE ART & DESIGN V i s u a l C o m m u n i c a t i o n S o l u t i o n s F I B O N A C C I S E Q U E N C E In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following integer sequence: 0,\;1,\;1,\;2,\;3,\;5,\;8,\;13,\;21,\;34,\;55,\;89,\;144,\; \ldots\; (sequence A000045 in OEIS). By def...
Note: Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied. The theory of Hardy's Z-function "Th...
Saturday, February 23, 2013 Possibly one of the greatest mathematicians of all time is Archimedes. He was born in 287 BC in the Greek colony of Syracuse. Archimedes advanced geometry, founded integral calculus, and approximated the value of pi. King Hieron had a goldsmith create him a gold crown, using the cold the k...
In this July 29, 2014 photo provided by Trina Merry, model Jessica Mellow poses in front of the Manhattan Bridge after Merry, a body-paint artist, camouflaged Mellow to blend into the bridge, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Merry says it takes about six hours to complete a work, which is preserved in photographs b...
Tagged as: A steel sculpture, based on one of the most famous objects in chaos theory, has been created by Dr Benjamin Storch, an artist who works with silver and steel. The idea was provided by mathematicians Professor Bernd Krauskopf and Dr Hinke Osinga from the University of Bristol. Storch turned the maths into a...
Puzzle Theory All grade school students in Nemmelgeb Murr take "puzzle theory" as the main subject of their curriculum. All other courses, including "reading" and "mathematics," are seen to derive from "puzzle theory." In fact, Nemmelgeb Murrians are appalled by the fundamental lack of knowledge that Earthlings show a...
Indiana Once Tried to Change Pi to 3.2 Any high school geometry student worth his or her protractor knows that pi is an irrational number, but if you've got to approximate the famed ratio, 3.14 will work in a pinch. That wasn't so much the case in late-19th-century Indiana, though. That's when the state's legislators ...
Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the end of the fourth millennium BC for the express purpose of recording numerical information. By the beginning of the second millennium the earliest known body of ''pure'' mathematics was one of thekey elements of scribal t...
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Zoghman Mebkhout Mathematician Birthday Saturday, January 01, 1949 Countdown Days left until next birthday: 342 Birthplace Age 69 years old Birth Sign Capricorn About Zoghman Mebkhout Zoghman Mebkhout (69 years old) (born 1949 ) (مبخوت زغمان) is an Algerian mathematician known for his work in algebraic analy...
In mathematics the letter X represents an unknown variable In bathroom design it represents the beginning of a new era Axor Starck X The flat smooth surfaces and straight lines of Axor Starck X create a sculptural appearance yet the collection39s des......
How to Subitize – See numbers in your head To subitize is to mentally count individual units of one. A quick way to subitize is to group numbers in three's. When I learned math as a child, I went straight to memorizing numerals. What I did not fully understand was what the numerals actually represent. This slowed dow...
Mathematics Colloquium Tel Aviv University Monday, May 8, 2017 12:15–13:10 Schreiber 006 :: TWIM Distinguished Lecture :: Leila Schneps L'Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu Probability and Bayesian methods in criminology Due to new techniques of scientific analysis of evidence, mathematical calculations are mo...
Want to learn Vedic Math? Vedic Math What is Vedic Math? Tastylia Uk Vedic Math is an ancient system of mathematics which was rediscovered by Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji in the last century. It has been derived from the Sanskrit word, "Veda", which means knowledge. Bharati Krsna was born in 1884 and died in 1960. He ...
Numbers, Revised Edition Progress has often been slow when it comes to understanding numbers. Numbers provide a rich source of exotic ideas, philosophical and mathematical, but because many of us are so invested in the familiar, we … (See Below for Full Description) Details Progress has often been slow when it comes...
Brains versus the calculator Share this John Jamieson says that numeracy depends on daily practice of mental arithmetic. Having reached what Ogden Nash has called the sixth age of man, I can look back on many humbling experiences. The morning I walked into Campbell Henry was one such. I had just left school at the a...
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Mathematics Duty Chapter VI Sets 6.1 Sets and members of a sets A Definition Concept of Sets Membership a Sets Cardinal Number Sets Subset Subset Set universe Venn Diagram Operation of Sets and Venn Diagram Intersection Operation of Sets Union A. The Notion Of A Set If you look carefully in a football match, what do ...
You are here How can we speak math? Saturday, December 9, 2006 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm EE/CS 3-180 Richard Fateman (University of California, Berkeley) Surprisingly, we can speak mathematics to a computer probably more rapidly and accurately than handwriting. Even better is to speak and use pointing or handwriting. A co...
Projective Geometry: An Approach to the Secrets of Space from the Standpoint of Artistic and Imaginative Thought Lawrence Edwards My high school math teacher introduced us to this 1884 imaginative geometry.This can be deduced from the geometric description of the conic section. Oldmeadow - Michigan State University ...
Subscribe to this blog Follow by Email Search This Blog Relearning to Count - Zero, One, Many I have been thinking about the methods we use to count with. What method of counting is most appropriate to the task at hand (pardon the pun). A smart friend of mine told me that developers need to relearn to count. As a s...
Part II: Geometry of Phi Part III: The Transcendent Equations Part IV: Phi in Earth Measures Part I: Algebra of Phi The FibonacciSeries Starting from 1 (and assuming a prior zero), iteratively generating the sum of the result with the previous number converges on a ratio of "phi" between successive numbers (each num...
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cantor and the Transfinite Realm. Multiple Choice Questions 1. What is true about the successive squared denominator series proposed by the Bernoullis? (a) The sum converges to 2. (b) The sum diverges. (c) The sum converges. (d) The sum dive...
Mathematics The Arabs developed the concept of irrational numbers, made algebra an exact science, founded analytical geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, and incorporated into mathematics the... Zaven's bestselling book Lebanon on Screen: The Greatest Moments of Lebanese Television and Pop Culturereconstructs L...
JB: JB: To what extent is your interest in the limits of scientific knowledge influenced by the work of Gšdel? TRAUB: In 1931 a logician named Kurt Gšdel announced a result that astonished the scientific world. Gšdel said that there are statements about arithmetic that can never be proved or disproved. This impossibil...
Tag: number square Phi Tie is Like Tied Musical Notes Crossing Many Measures. Mathematicians since Euclid have studied the properties of the golden ratio, including its appearance in the dimensions of a regular pentagon and in a golden rectangle, which may be cut into a square and a smaller rectangle with the same asp...
Definition 1: the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness - [noun denoting cognition] (pure mathematics is a kind of ...) a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangem...
The diagrams below represent the stages involved in constructing a fractal, an infinite pattern where the initial stage is visible in smaller pieces of the image. Each step in the process is called an iteration.
@article {Carpo448, author = {Carpo, Mario}, title = {Drawing with Numbers: Geometry and Numeracy in Early Modern Architectural Design}, volume = {62}, number = {4}, pages = {448--469}, year = {2003}, doi = {10.2307/3592497}, publisher = {University of California Press Journals}, abstract = {Precision in building was p...
Who is john tartaglia dating As there is no common standard for the inclusion or not of zero in the natural numbers, the natural numbers without zero are commonly referred to as positive integers, and the natural numbers with zero are referred to as non-negative integers.A rational number is a number that can be expre...
Sunday, August 2, 2015 deriving e and pi from complex numbers There are some algebraic problems that can't be solved without sqrt(-1). The existence of a+b*i numbers creates a plane. The magnitude of such numbers is often useful. But this is a reduction in the specificity of a+b*i which included a direction, so you k...
The Heart of Mathematics Advice Showing 1 to 3 of 6 I would recommend this course for anyone who suffer from math anxieties. After being out of school for over ten years, if it was not simple addition, multiplication, subtraction and division, I was not interested. This course not only encouraged me but I did better ...
The First Digit Phenomenon Back in 1881, Simon Newcomb, the renowned Canadian-American scientist, published a provocative conjecture that was promptly forgotten by everyone. Newcomb had noticed that books of logarithms in the libraries were always much dirtier at the beginning. Hmmm! Were his fellow scientists looking...
Similar to Fourier series, Taylor series is an expansion of an infinitely differentiable function about a point. A variation of Taylor series, called as Maclaurin Series taken about the point The smooth motion of rotating circles can be used to build up any repeating curve even one as angular as a digital square wave....
A Tenn. Man Recently Discovered The Largest Prime Number Known To Humankind Illustration and Painting erhui1979/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption erhui1979/Getty Images Illustration and Painting erhui1979/Getty Images This past week, a FedEx worker from Germantown, Tenn., done a vast find — and it wasn't...
John Gabriel <thenewcalculus@gmail.com> wrote in news:32040599-4cb2-41ed-8391-be715c70bfaa@googlegroups.com: > John Gabriel's construction of rational numbers from nothing in 5 easy > steps: > > 1. A magnitude is the idea of size of extent. We can either tell that > two magnitudes are equal or not. If we can tell they...
Euler Mascheroni constant Learn the Euler–Mascheroni by entering it in this game. The Euler–Mascheroni constant (also called Euler's constant) is a mathematical constant recurring in analysis and number theory, usually denoted by the lowercase Greek letter γ (gamma). It is defined as the limiting difference between th...
Predicting patterns in life based on natural growth follows the Fibonacci and spiral pattern. This knowledge has been used to predict the stock market, the evolution of any species etc. The "golden ratio" found in all things natural, (ie Phi which is 1.618) can help us predict many naturally occurring patterns around u...
General CommentI think they're talking about how symbology can be as simple as a number. "What's your favourite number, what does it mean?" Something as simple as that can mean so much to certain people, symbols mean a lot to the beholder, even if it doesn't mean much to someone else. "Every number has a meaning" (Ev...
Navigation CSUS STEM Center Lecture on Ethnomathematics Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Daniel Orey, a Sacramento State professor of Teacher Education who specializes in mathematics and multicultural education, will discuss Ethnomathematics. A research program developed by Brazilian philosopher, educator, and mathematician ...
If you can recall your school mathematics lessons, 'vectors' are distances to which direction has been applied. Their practical use really only dates from the mid-eighteenth century, but they're known as 'Euclidean' vectors because it was the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid who first spotted their importance. A kee...
Menu 6D: Math vs Nature 8. Characterizing Nature We have described in another chapter about the complexity of embedded engineering systems. They represent nature, because they are created using objects of nature, they interact with nature, they implement many laws of nature like – simultaneity, finite time, boundedn...
Celebrate Pi Day with calculus-inspired activities for the young and the young at heart Happy 3/14/15 – and let's hope you read it exactly at 9:26 for even more digits of Pi! Here are three activities for celebrating with your children and friends. It's a triangle! It's a square! It's a… circle?! You will need a lot...
The Joy in Math I really love math. I find solving equations very satisfying. I'm wildly analytical, so figuring things out is something I love to do. I'll do equations in my mind in bed at night just seeing if I can. I find the consistency in math and numbers fascinatingl SO linear! So when I saw this technique, I ju...
Jon Crowcroft wrote: > a letter in this month's CACM reminds us that the Church-Turing Theorem > states that algorithms and mathematics are the same - math is unpatentable > so ... FWIW, math isn't patentable itself, but is potentially patentable when applied to a real problem (e.g., general path calculation wouldn't b...
Monthly Archives: March 2013 First up, remember Sam Loyd? (We've featured him twicebefore.) He was an american chess player and recreational mathematician who lived from 1841-1911. He was also a chess composer, someone who writes endgame strategies and chess puzzles. In fact, he wrote all sorts of puzzles, which his s...
Bézier Curves by G. Adam Stanislav If you search the Internet for Bézier curves, you will obtain a list of many, many pages that discuss the topic of Bézier curves. But chances are they will come in two varieties: A large number of pages that talk about Bézier curves without really explaining their nature, and a smal...
Tiling Theory studies how one might cover the plane with various shapes. Medieval Islamic artisans developed intricate geometric tilings to decorate their mosques, mausoleums, and shrines. Recent investigations show some of these medieval tilings (first appearing in the 12th Century AD) contain symmetries similar to th...
large numbers Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow, that's big,' time... Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. —Douglas Adams, The ...
Because base 10 follows a simple visual pattern and is easier to follow than base 6 I'm not sure the medieval or whatever mathematicians were particularly focussed on how well the numbers would line up on electronic devices in the 21st century :-p You're right of course. But, how did they know that? Trial and error? ...
The Story of Maths • 0 • 4 episodes • Professor Marcus du Sautoy concludes his investigation into the history of mathematics with a look at some of the great unsolved problems that confronted mathematicians in the 20th century. After exploring Georg Cantor's work on infinity and Henri Poincare's work on chaos theory, ...
Point Symmetric Ribbon Patterns using a Hexagonal Motif from M.C. Escher Abstract M.C. Escher explored patterns created from simple motifs carved from geometric shapes such as a square or a hexagon. Rather than creating patterns having translational planar symmetry, this paper describes how point symmetric patterns c...
Saturday, 23 June 2012 A Centenary of Turing One hundred years ago today, June the 23rd, 1912, Alan Turing was born. He is arguably one of the most significant mathematicians born in the 20th century. If you're interested in Turing, I strongly recommend Andrew Hodges biography - Alan Turing: The Enigma His work demo...
Man, what a great find. I've been wanting a collection like this, chock-full of illustrations, for some time now. And, bonus, it's a big book (the 2000 edition) but printed on this great thick but lightweight paper, so despite its size it's a light book. In the first chapter, all the numeric writing systems are gather...
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kottke.org posts about Ulrich Boser The abacus counting device dates back thousands of years but has, in the past century, been replaced by calculators and computers. But studies show that abacus use can have an effect on how well people learn math. In this excerpt adapted from his new book Learn Better, education res...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 Analysis of Numbers Accurately Reflecting Reality, cont'd... In sum: I was considering the system of whole numbers as a representation of reality. The complete set is the digits 0 through 9. Which I posit is actually two similar sets: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 I was looking at whether the space...
Mathematics is certainly a science in the broad sense of "systematic and formulated knowledge", but most people use "science" to refer only to the natural sciences. Since mathematics provides the language in which the natural sciences aspire to describe and analyse the universe, there is a natural link between mathemat...
Thank you for bringing this wonderful tool to the world. Truly extraordinary! My question is: how do you map the limits or "outer edges" of the WolframAlpha field? The reason I ask is that my father teaches computational logic and since I was a small child I was intrigued by his claim that we could know, with absolut...
History of the Fibonacci number sequence, their is clear evidence that ancient civilizations understood and used these numbers much better than we do today. Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences - Guided Notes Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences - Guided Notes: With the adoption of the Common Core curriculum, a new topic...
Closing the Gap The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers Vicky Neale Looks not only at the breakthroughs on the Twin Primes Conjecture, but also the public collaboration aspects of the Polymath8 project Plenty of visual imagery and sketches to illustrate key ideas Provides a glimpse into how the international mathema...
Tag Archives: eulers identity Some of you folks told us that there isn't enough Maths T shirts on our store. So here it is. Wear this on those days when you really don't give a hoot, but don't want to be seen as rude. This wikipedia article has a cool explanation on euler's identity and why e^(i*pi)+1 equals 0.more Ma...
8, 2015 Daughter and Father - a warm geometry . . . Kate Stange is a mathematician -- from the Canadian province of Ontario and now at the University of Colorado -- whose father, Ken Stange, is a visual artist and poet. I met them on the internet via our combined interests in the intersections of poetry and mathemati...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012 Who will remember the humble slide rule? I had a conversation yesterday that was a bit of reminiscing about things from the past. I can't remember how it started but it covered the slide rule, ready reckoners, abacus and other things of that ilk. One of those conversations that has meandered ...
2 IntroductionPractice of engineering and science has been dramatically altered by the development ofScientific computingMathematics of numerical analysisThe InternetComputational Fluid Dynamics is based upon the logic of applied mathematicsprovides tools to unlock previously unsolved problemsis used in nearly all fiel...
Today I visited the Field Museum of Natural History. Another one of my favorite Chicago museums. The Field Museum houses thousands of artifacts from dinosaur bones to pottery and clothing from ancient civilizations. Again you may be thinking, math? Isn't this a natural history museum? With thousands of artifacts on dis...
Scientists and mathematicians are always looking for connections in math and science. They collect and analyze data to see if a pattern emerges. If a mathematical model of an experiment can be developed, it usually reveals what a scientist may have discovered. We see tiling all the time from brick walls to tiles on yo...
Sacred Geometry: How Cell Phones Work Using Fractals Cell people carry around an entire computer in their pocket and don't think twice about it. So, how does everything fit into the tiniest cell phone? The answer to this question came about by sheer happenstance. It's all about fractals. It takes us back to Benoit ...
Ingrid Daubechies is eager to help Duke scientists throw a few life-preservers to the science community which, she says, is now "drowning in data." Daubechies (pronounced DOHB-shee), who joins Duke's mathematics faculty in January 2011, is one of the world's authorities on sorting through complex data sets to find hid...
Pi Pi Pi ( \(\pi\) ) is a dimensionless number that never ends and never repeats. The ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. No matter what the size, divide the circumference (the distance around the circle) by the diameter and you will always get exactly the same number.
Introduction to Non-Wimpy Number Systems A non-credit IAP mini-course consisting of three lectures. January 7-9. Course description: Finite numbers are wimpy. Learn how to construct and play with two extensions of the real number system that contain infinite and infinitesimal numbers. Wednesday January 7. The Hyperr...
Are You Thinking Clearly? (Podcast Part II) How do you make the important decisions of your life, such as what to study or where to invest your money? Is there a mathematical strategy to thinking clearly? On this week's Goldstein on Gelt show, Professor Michael Starbird, professor of mathematics and author of "The Fiv...
Evidence based mathematics teaching The three invited speakers, Lara Alock, Toby Bailey and Franco Vivaldi all gave amazing talks, and is was great to see so many interested colleagues, both from RHUL, and other universities. Slides from the talks are available here. I won't attempt to summarise the talks, or all of ...
Ihr Euch fragt, Ihr dem Casino Euer.. Can you do math So you like math, and you 're thinking about declaring a major in it. But you wonder: what kind of job can I get?. Total sums done: 5,, If you have any comments/suggestions, please tweet them to @TaimurAbdaal:) 30 seconds to do as many sums as you can. Welcome to ...
On mathematics as language The following is something I wrote back in summer of 2010, directed toward a friend who had studied mathematics and said, "Math is the truth." … If one says, "Math is the truth," it begs me to ask: what is "truth" in this context? I'm tempted to think of "Truth" as something that is alway...
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Maths and NUmeracy Comments (0) Transcript of Maths and NUmeracy Maths in the Real World Similarities and Differences Maths and numeracy in the real world present differences and similarities that Maths Phenomena Fibonacci Sequence This presentation will demonstrate similarities and differences in maths and numerac...
Sunday, January 10, 2010 Why are so many ancient systems based 12? Because it is easy to do math with 12. According to Wikipedia: 12 is a highly composite number, the smallest number with four non-trivial factors (2, 3, 4, 6), and the smallest to include as factors all four numbers (1 to 4) within the subitizing rang...
3:15-3:35Candyce Hecker, University of North Dakota (graduate student) "Sublimits" in a Separable Metric Space Abstracts Invited Speakers ŸPaul Zorn, Revisiting Familiar Places:What I Learned at the Magazine Among the side benefits of editing Mathematics Magazine was to learn a lot of mathematics.Much was complete...
Menu Ceiling fan arithmetic Summer has arrived in Minnesota, and that means we alternate between warm days where we open the windows and run the ceiling fan, and hot days where we close everything up and run the air conditioning (a luxury, btw, that our 1928-built home only got about five years back). Tabitha is nat...
Fibonacci at Foster Did you know swirls are all around you? Swirls, or spirals, are not just a shape but a pattern. And this pattern can be explained by the Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers that, when drawn, create a spiral every time. During our class today, I introduced the Kinder through 3rd graders to the ...
We don't know what scientists and mathematicians of Alexandria really knew. Some modern discoveries are stunning. 1. In a recent book of Lucio Rossi `La Rivoluzione Dimenticata' (Forgotten Revolution), published in Italian in 1996 (I know it only by a review in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, May 1998, p...
Mathematical equations that attempt to come nearest to reflecting our human observational studies of the cosmos are maps, not the territory itself. Think of the cosmos as a drawing with lots of wavy lines, very complicated convoluted. The human mind tries to put a uniform grid on top of that drawing, dividing up the d...
Math Symbols Mathematics is an exact science where there is no margin for error no matter how minute. Mathematics is generally an abstract study of space, quantity, change and structure. It is the science that resolves "what is true" or "what is false", with the use of formulations and patterns. In cosmology, the use ...