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In Mathematics, we can make nonsense, such as dividing a number by 0. Here is (almost) the English equivalent: Source here
On Monday, May 3, 1999, 212 high school women and 36 of their teachers from 27 high schools in the greater New York area met at St. John’s University to participate in its eighth annual Sonia Kovalevsky Day. The schools ranged from public to private and from inner city to suburban. The Dean of St. […]
Weirdly, random data isn’t actually all that random. In a given list of numbers representing anything from stock prices to city populations to the heights of buildings to the lengths of rivers, about 30 percent of the numbers will begin with the digit 1. Less of them will begin with 2, even less with 3, and so […]
Prime Spirals: Because prime numbers are indivisible (except by 1 and themselves), and because all other numbers can be written as multiples of them, they are often regarded as the “atoms” of the math world. Despite their importance, the distribution of prime numbers among the integers is still a mystery. There is no pattern dictating which […]
In the important mathematical field of topology, two objects are considered to be equivalent, or “homeomorphic,” if one can be morphed into the other by simply twisting and stretching its surface; they are different if you have to cut or crease the surface of one to reshape it into the form of the other. Consider, for example, […]
Mathematicians from the University of Exeter have solved the mystery of traffic jams by developing a model to show how major delays occur on our roads, with no apparent cause. Many traffic jams leave drivers baffled as they finally reach the end of a tail-back to find no visible cause for their delay. Now, a […]
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Do you enjoy a good detective book or movie? Yes, forensics appeals to our growing mathematicians just as much as it does to TV, film and book audiences. There are many great websites that look at the role of Mathematics in solving detective cases. Check out the powerpoint detective case by clicking on the above […]
The world is finally entering a new year – 2013 (but, of course, you already knew that). What you may not know is that January 1st, 2013 is also the 30th anniversary of the Internet. Yes, techno-mathematicians, the WWW as we know it had humble beginnings. January 1st, 1983 (also know as “Flag Day“) was […]
