The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos. Le Uyen PhamMathematician + Mathematician + Mathematician = More and Better Math: a key formula behind the success of Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician who ever lived.
(Illustration from “The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős”) This week we celebrate the life of the most published mathematician in history, Paul Erdős (AIR-dosh), who was born 100 years ago on March 26. Dr. Basketball Isn't a Sport. It's a Statistical Network. Kobe Bryant, left, isn’t a player on a basketball team; he’s a node on a network, and that pass is a transfer.
So say a basketball fanatic and a math whiz who have developed a new way of analyzing basketball stats. Entropy.and.PDE. Technotes. Video Lectures in Mathematics (mathematicsprof) on Pinterest. Discrete Dynamical Systems. .
At the end of the lesson, you will find another list of Just Do It! Problems. Review the problems and when you feel that you are ready to solve them, open the Assignment 2 shell (Assgn_2 is attached below) and do the assignment according to the directions in that shell. Submit Assignment 2 using the Handin link above. This beautiful video about parabolas will 100% blow your mind. 'Signal' And 'Noise': Prediction As Art And Science. No one has a crystal ball, but Nate Silver has perfected the art of prediction.
In 2008, he accurately predicted the presidential winner of 49 of the 50 states, and the winners of all 35 Senate races. Before he focused on elections, Silver developed a sophisticated system for analyzing baseball players' potential and became a skilled poker player — which is how he made his living for a while. More Websites to Explore. Deb Roy: The birth of a word. Roy and his colleagues at Bluefin Labs ( probe the social dynamics around certain TV shows by examining comments culled from social media sources.
This is one example of “scraping” web sites for various kinds of data. While Bluefin’s case may seem benign, scraping does suggest certain legal and ethical issues. Examples include: BBC: FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application (1/26/12) (government) Taylor Wessing: Battling the robots—scraping personal information (2/2011) (health care) Bloomberg Law: New age technology: Brazilian and U.S. courts “scraping” the legal boundaries of Internet use (11/09/11) (corporate competitors) Web.jjay.cuny.edu/~mkovera/vidmar.pdf. The Changing Face of Calculus: First-Semester Calculus as a High School Course. *This article will appear in the August/September issue of FOCUS David M.
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2012 Voter Math Tests Old Limits - Washington Wire. Predicting burglary patterns through math modeling of crime. Philadelphia – May 31, 2012 - Pattern formation in physical, biological, and sociological systems has been studied for many years.
Despite the fact that these subject areas are completely diverse, the mathematics that describes underlying patterns in these systems can be surprisingly similar. Mathematical tools can be used to study such systems and predict their patterns. One area where the study of pattern formation has been of growing interest is in crime modeling. Math formula leads researchers to source of pollution. The leaking of environmentally damaging pollutants into our waters and atmosphere could soon be counteracted by a simple mathematical algorithm, according to researchers.
Presenting their research June 26, in IOP Publishing's journal Inverse Problems, the researchers, from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, believe their work could aid efforts to avoid environmental catastrophes by identifying the exact location where pollutants have been leaked as early as possible. In the event of an oil spill across a region of the sea, researchers could collect samples of pollutants along certain sections of the body of water and then feed this information into their algorithm.
Test Decodes Dolphins’ Math Skills. The Climate Change Tipping Point. For those warning of , it would be tempting to say so.
The problem is, no one knows if there is a point at which a climate system shifts abruptly. But some scientists are now bringing mathematical rigor to the tipping-point argument. Their findings give us fresh cause to worry that sudden changes are in our future. Human cycles: History as science. Sometimes, history really does seem to repeat itself. After the US Civil War, for example, a wave of urban violence fuelled by ethnic and class resentment swept across the country, peaking in about 1870. SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The United States of Numeracy: The Math of a Presidential Campaign. The New York TimesThis month, the FiveThirtyEight forecast model, which heavily weights the most recent polling and a candidate’s momentum, projected Mr. Gingrich to win South Carolina by less than 10 points, forecasting him to get 38.7 percent of the vote to Mr. Romney’s 29.3 percent.Go to related FiveThirtyEight blog post » A presidential race is a gift to American history and civics classes.