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One of the many things we love about knitting and crochet - and all the fiber arts - is how it satisfies on many levels: It's fun, it's great to look at, it keeps us warm, no creature needs to suffer in order for us to obtain the materials and it's soothing to the spirit. As many of us know, it's also an excellent way ...
never gets mentioned in the various mathematical studies is that the figure is an unfolded tesseract (4 dimensional hypercube), also called the net of the tesseract. A folded hypercube would have four physical dimensions and not be visualizable. Just as the six faces of a cube could be unfolded to form a flat cross, th...
Archives Is Math Fiction? (part 2) The last post asked, "Is mathematics fiction or nonfiction?" Here's a recap of the discussion so far: One definition for math is "the science of patterns." Science and technology depend on math. Disciplines like chemistry, physics, and computer science are made possible by the qua...
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Links DO the math, DON'T overpay. We make high quality, low-cost math resources a reality. Thursday, June 4, 2015 Throwback Fact: Emmy Noether's Math Journey Emmy Noether The way we name proofs in mathematics, most often after their founder, immortalizes mathematicians who could otherwise slip into history unnotic...
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Links Numbers [en inglés] - When you have a bit of time to fill, check out this page and it's links! It's about how our numbers came to be and how our numbers and those of other cultures diverged through time. The images explain why some people cross their sevens, the bizarre history of how the two and the three got f...
Q We return to the two number systems that you have defined i.e. horizontal and vertical. Can you show now how these lead to both a linear and circular interpretation of number respectively? PC It is important to remember that even though the same symbols are used in both cases they actually relate to very distinctive...
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Ten most popular ordinal numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 And that was an astoundingly bad joke. For more of the same sort, except illustrated, why not visit my daily growing jar of doodles, Lemmata? (And the tragedy of this list is that 1, 2, 3 and so on aren't ordinal numbers in the mathematical sense, or in ...
25+ Easter Eggs Kids (& Adults) Can Discover On Wolfram|Alpha Recently the Wolfram|Alpha team blogged "10 Fun Questions Kids Can Answer with Wolfram|Alpha." It's worth a read, as it lists some great examples of what can be done with this "computational engine," if only because Wolfram|Alpha can seem awkward to use at ...
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My teacher, Heather Clewett-Jachowski, strongly believes that many (and perhaps even all) crop circles have Squaring the Circle encoded in them in some form. We are just failing to see it. She could well be right. The geometrical basis of for instance the 1.5 Yin Yang formation helps us in a very elegant way to square ...
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Using random numbers to estimate Pi 02 Jan 2015 I'm a big fan of Monte Carlo methods. There is something neat about performing a complex integration or simulation fueled by an engine running on random numbers. In this post, I'm going to talk about a canonical example used to demonstrate Monte Carlo integration: esti...
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ASK Where Can You Find A Math Expert To Answer Your Questions Online? #ask #ask a math question # Where Can You Find A Math Expert To Answer Your Questions Online? A math expert is a person well versed in mathematics and/or the sciences which require advanced computing skills. A few years back consulting with a mat...
Tangram, The link between mathematics and art Leaving aside the controversial forms of art, the artist and academic at the University of Nicosia, Maria Chrisfororou presents the event Tangram: The link between mathematics and art. The event includes an interactive workshop along with interesting visual and digital int...
Firstly, I'll take this opportunity to wish James Cranch a marvellous 30th birthday. This post was inspired by the conception of a new 'origami society' at Trinity. Having never tried it before, it took me a while to decipher the instructions for the construction of a dragon. There are rather restrictive constraints ...
The Mandelbrot Set Where does the color come from? We know the points in the set are coded black. The Java applet you will see took the function out to 100 iterates. After n iterates, the point may leave the set proceeding on its way to infinity. If n is a small number, then the point goes out to infinity very quickl...
A short account of the history of mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball( Book ) 7 editions published in 1907 in French and Undetermined and held by 25 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Aristotle, Galileo, Kepler, Newton -- you know the names, here's the book that will tell you what they really did. It covers in detail the...
<< No reason why you can't learn times tables as well--and why is maths considered 'higher' anyway?in my experience, mathematicians are just like the rest of us--and many of them live in a fantasy world, too. >> Some of us *are* mathematicians. Solomon Deems Well, I feel that the most efficient way of learning somet...
This post originally appeared on The Aperiodical. We republish it here with permission. Being a mathematician, I often get asked if I'm good at calculating tips. I'm not. In fact, mathematicians study lots of other things besides numbers. As most people know, if they stop to think about it, one of the other things mat...
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Pi Song Some people say, 3's the magic number, But that's not gonna' roll here anymore... I'd say they're irrational, If their thinking's mathematical, They'll know the magic's with the constant, 3.14 (Did you say 3.14?) That's what I said, Pi's the coolest constant, 24-7 satisfaction, 22/7th as a fraction, Say pi's t...
Elwes Dr Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. He contributes to New Scientist and Plus Magazine and publishes research on model theory. Dr Elwes is a committed populariser of mathematics which he regularly promotes at public lectures and on ...
Abstract mathematical models can help businesses optimise their manufacturing equipment, new study suggests. Screenshot of one of the mathematical models used to optimise industrial machinery. (Photo: Joakim Juhl, 2011) The equipment that businesses use in their production isn't always optimally designed in terms of ...
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Club Feature: Math Club In 1974, Edinboro University held the first induction ceremony of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics society, and the Math Club was born. The function of the Math Club is to promote mathematics to the Edinboro community. "Mathematics is all around us and having a club where we can show t...
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern Book format:An electronic version of a printed book that can be read on a computer or handheld device designed specifically for this purpose. Publisher: Basic Books (23 Mar. 2010) By:Keith Devlin (Author) In the early...
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GMAT Question of the Day October 17A)B) Contrary to common belief, Euclid's Elements is more a compilation than a composition, repeating work by scholars such as Eudoxus, Pythagorus, and Theaetetus, who clarified earlier proofs and corrected weak ones. (C) Contrary to common belief, Euclid's Elements is more compil...
Friday, April 11, 2014 The three most basic shapes -- squares, triangles and circles -- are all around us, from the natural world to the one we've engineered. Full of fascinating facts about these shapes and their 3D counterparts, Shapes in Math, Science and Nature introduces young readers to the basics of geometry an...
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Thursday, May 19, 2016 PARCC Practice Test Question 22 (Day 165) Chapter 22 of Morris Kline's Mathematics and the Physical World is "The Differential Calculus." We apparently can't avoid Calculus forever! "It's enough if you understand the Propositions with some of the Demonstrations which are easier than the rest."...
Posts tagged with 'japanese abacus' October last year, I have introduced how to represent numbers using the Japanese abacus. In this post, I am going to teach you how to add and subtract using it. If you are not familiar on how to represent numbers in abacus, please read the first part of this series by clicking the l...
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An Invitation to Mathematics Description: Mankind may be in a better position to deal with the baffling problems which confront it in the modern world if an understanding of mathematics were the rule rather than the exception. The author's aim is to give a reader who has but little knowledge of the technique of mathem...
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Easily Count to 899 On Your Fingers By Matthew Canning, Become Better at Everything Founder Tools you'll need: Ten fingers and working wrists. A speedy counting method known as Chisenbop was developed in Korea centuries ago. It provides an easy method for counting to ninety-nine on your fingers. We're first going to...
Maths of spirituality The rules of addtion applicable in maths very much hold good in spirituality too- 1. Two positives - resultant is addition - increased positivity 2. Two negatives - resultant is addtion - increased negativity 3. One postive and one negative - resultant is subtraction - who so ever is strong or...
Pages Monday, January 11, 2016 The Joy of Sectors: Getting our Galileo on... "For the eye is always in search of beauty, and if we do not gratify its desire for pleasure by a proportionate enlargement in these measures, and thus make compensation for ocular deception, a clumsy and awkward appearance will be presente...
Jane Street Estimathon: KAIST "What's an Estimathon" you ask?! It's a team contest where the goal is to create confidence intervals to difficult math and science questions. e.g., what's the volume of the earth's oceans (in cubic km); or, how many prime number contain strictly increasing digits. It's a very interactive...
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A lot of people are familiar with British mathematician John Horton Conway's "Game of Life" – an algorithm to simulate cellular growth and decay, first published in Scientific American in 1970. The concept is simple. Imagine an infinite grid of empty squares. Each of these squares can either be empty or occupied by a ...
Zero This article/section deals with mathematical concepts appropriate for notedscholar. Zero is an incredibly useful mathematical concept — particularly for place-value numbering systems — obtained by the West from the heathens of the East in the closing stages of the 1st millennium CE, which raises the question of ...
Zero is such an incredibly abstract invention of the human mind that neither the Babylonions nor the Greeks or Romans had any idea of it. (The Mayas and Chinese had some notion of zero without really any rules of how to apply it properly). The first man to establish strict rules for the use of zero was Brahmagupta (A.D...
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Can you solve history's most mind-boggling puzzles? Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, paradoxes, conundrums, and puzzles of all kinds have kept humankind perplexed and amused. Why is this so? What do puzzles reveal about the human mind? Do they have implications for the study of mathematics?...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 It always intrigued me how one could find the square-root of a number. In school I was taught a digit-by-digit method to calculate square-root. I did implement it using BASIC in Std IX, but the solution did not seem elegant enough. By Std XI I had actually figured out the Bisection method by...
Zero Some say it comes from the gambling expression 'love or money' – you can play a game for money (stakes) or love (nothing). Others claim it's because in French 'l'oeuf' means 'the egg' and in 2-dimensions an egg looks like a zero. Ridiculous? Maybe, but in the sport of cricket a batsman who scores zero runs is sa...
maths is more than simply sums The picture above, by artist Ricardo Solís, gives an idea for how a tropical fish came to have its distinctive patterns. The real-life process is just as exciting and mysterious! Can we use mathematical models to understand how these patterns are formed? Can the biological processes that...
Anonymous, that reminds me of some anecdote by Feynman where he has complex mathematical ideas described to him by young students. He wouldn't fully understand them, but he would imagine a shape, and for each new concept he'd add an extra bit, like a squiggly tail or other appendage. When something didn't fit in right,...
Kaso - Abstract Graffiti Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Fibonacci Graffiti - The Project Fibonacci Graffiti is an experimental project that brings mathematics schemes in the world of Graffiti Art. It has the intent to create new visual pattern and harmony in the urban space. Fibonacci Graffiti is also a tribute to Leonardo...
For a while my Gtalk status was "pi^2=~10". Which is true, pi times itself is roughly ten. But of course I was probably hoping someone would ask what that was all about, and JZ obliged. This was my response. it comes from a physics class walking us through a problem, the teacher rhetorically asked permission to replac...
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In the memory of Maryam Mirzakhani, I have created maths4maryams.org not as a memorial site, but as a social platform for connecting mathematically like-minded people. Here is what Timothy Gowers says about […] This post has nothing to do with Michael Artin Algebra! Artin of this post is my son, and this is the story ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 People appear symmetrical, but even the most perfect human face shows irregularities if we compare the left side with the right. Perhaps this is why the absolute, rigid symmetry of crystals seems beautiful yet alien to us. Unlike DNA's soft spiral, a crystal's molecular bonds align themselv...
Learn from a vibrant community of students and enthusiasts, including olympiad champions, researchers, and professionals. Crunchy Coconuts A positive number \(n\) is called a coconut if the logarithm of \(n\) to the base 10 is in the interval \([2,3) \). Moreover, a natural number \(n\) is called crunchy if it suffi...
Matrices for the stupid A good friend of mine has been trying to explain Matrices to me as a mathematical tool. His description of the function and rules was wonderful but I couldn't get my head around the applications in the real world. I'm a bit of a dunce in this department. So I went hunting and found the most bas...
For all - beginning VTF about algorithms with the Universe and finishing nanotechnology of In further VTF - the great theorem of Fermat. In tm. iatp. net are considered algorithms: - creations of the ideal Universe and Earth - paradise; - clonings of eternal and ideal intelligence; - creations of uniform science, ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Indian logic attracted the attention of many Western scholars, and had an influence on pioneering 19th-century logicians such as Charles Babbage (1791-1871), Augustus De Morgan, and particularly George Boole, as confirmed by Boole's wife Mary Everest Boole in an "open letter to Dr Bose" titled "I...
"Pythagoras of Samos (570–495 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and putative founder of the Pythagoreanism movement. He is often revered as a great mathematician and scientist and is best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name. It was said that he was the first man to call himself a p...
A Geometry of Early Islam – The Dynamic Circle Method arrangement (8th in the sequence) that was used to create the window design of the 1356CE Madrasa of Amir Salf al-din Sargatmish in Old Cairo, Egypt. Basically the method requires algorithmic steps where circle sizes and positions are changed in a step-by-step fashi...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 What is fascinating about number theory is that it uses very deep methods to attack problems that are in some sense very "natural" and also simple to formulate. A schoolchild can understand Fermat's last theorem, but it took extremely deep methods to prove it. A schoolchild can understand wha...
Idea OO by zenquaker If you're new to the blog, or haven't been paying attention, I have been using roman numerals for the titles of all my blog posts: Waste I, Waste II, Waste III, Waste IV. It's just a style I carried over from an earlier blog. It has had its interesting side effects, to be sure. I got more hits th...
In which our heroine, having defeated the three-headed demon of supercomputing, optimization, and ill-posed problems in her quest for the elusive Ph.D., embarks upon her new career. Friday, March 03, 2006 Adventures in Math I know some folks come here just for the math, so here's another little piece of math to keep...
What would you like to search for? Ancient Arrows Whether in pre-historic society or while communicating with alien civilisations, is there any better symbol to depict position and direction? Hold's creative director Steve Hyland thinks not. Words by Steve Hyland When, in the early Seventies, the Pioneer 10 and 11 ...
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Monday, March 14, 2016 Pi Pie Look at this delicious pie Mommy made today! It is Pi Day, 3/14. If you round up pi to 3.1416, then that matches the date of the day (3/14/16). But who really rounds up pi anymore? It's either 3.14 or some really long extended number that I can never seem to remember past 3.14159265 or s...
The Glorious Golden Ratio (Alfred S. Posamentier) at Booksamillion.com. What exactly is the Golden Ratio? How was it discovered? Where is it found? These questions .The Glorious Golden Ratio by Dr. Alfred S Posamentier starting at $4.42.Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site.Designed for high-...
The 2nd edition of Robert Lang's Origami Design Secrets is here! I have been a long time fan of his and his work is vastly different from mine, but despite the differences, I am in complete agreement with the questions and thoughts expressed in his book. Below are few favorites quotes from the book I found helpful when...
The date for the dumbasses who are visually impaired to the point that they can't see it is 3-14-2010, and it is PI day! For the donut-eating elementary schoolers who don't know what PI is, it is a mathematical constant equaling approximately 3.14, or 22/7. You'll probably study it in your geometry, trig, and calculus...
The Math Clock Dinner will be at 3×2 o'clock. Bed time is at 20÷2 o'clock because we have to get up at 10-3 o'clock. Now doesn't that make telling time more fun? Here are some math clocks for you to consider. Whether you want math clocks with formulas or symbols or math sayings, you'll find them all here. These are t...
Euclid: Euclides of Megara, mathematician, 5th century BC. He was younger than Plato but older than Aristotle. His main works are the elements that develop his axioms. (See Der kleine Pauly, Lexikon der Antike, Munich 1979)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exh...
So then in my senior year… I was… I was majoring in physics mostly and with fairly poor grades because I was doing so many other things… and I thought I would make up for this by doing a good thesis, but it turned out at Harvard, physics students can't… they don't have an undergraduate thesis, but they do in math. So, ...
Thinking in Numbers On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math In Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's eleven fingers, or his many siblings, Tammet explores questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a thing as an average person, and how we can make sense of those we love.
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A view of the world from my own unique perspective Let's begin with a definition. A palindrome is a word or a series of words that is spelled the same way backwards and forwards. For example: radar, level, "Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam", "Never odd or even". A palindrome can also be a sequence of numbers. I've always tho...
MathSierpinski's Triangle is an example of a self-repeating shape known as a fractal. Students will learn to create their own as well as extend this idea into other shapes, leading to interesting math-based artIn this video, students investigate a strange image that asks which has more sugar: a donut or a health drink?...
God- The Great Geometer Extracts from this document... Introduction God- The Great Geometer Since the dawn of mathematics, humans have tried to use it's methods to answer this question: What are we, and everything around us, made of? The ancients believed that the world was made up of four basic "elements": earth, w...