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Technology :: News :: December 29, 2011 :: :: Email :: Print A reformed calendar, with a pattern of two 30-day months followed by one 31-day month, would be more business friendly By Stephanie Pappas and LiveScience
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For my book Brain Trust , I interviewed Keith Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy,” a World Economic Forum fellow, and math professor at Stanford. And being a mathematician, Devlin thinks about things differently than the world at large. For example, in his very good monthly column Devlin’s Angle , he quotes the following problem, originally designed by puzzle master Gary Foshee: “I tell you that I have two children, and that (at least) one of them is a boy born on Tuesday.
An Adventure in the Nth Dimension
On the mystery of a ball that fills a box, but vanishes in the vastness of higher dimensions Brian Hayes The area enclosed by a circle is π r 2 .
Seven equations that rule your world - physics-math - 13 February 2012
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Higgs discovery celebrates math's power to make predictions about the real world By Tom Siegfried Web edition: July 4, 2012
Essay: Nature's Secrets Foretold
Indra’s Pearls concentrates on the beauty of maths and explores the ideas of Felix Klein, who was a geometer from the 19th century. I put this on the list because, to me, it is the most beautifully visual mathematics book I have ever seen. It is about what is called Fuchsian groups and Kleinian groups.
Dana Mackenzie on the Beauty and Fun of Mathematics
Mathematics: Mapping a fixed point
© Alain Herzog 22.11.11 - For fifty years, mathematicians have grappled with a so-called “fixed point” theorem. An EPFL-based team has now found an elegant, one-page solution that opens up new perspectives in physics and economics. Take a map of the world.On Points
Tallis in Wonderland Raymond Tallis pinpoints the mathematics/reality divide. Readers of this column will have had a hint of my views on the limitations of the ability of maths and physics to capture lived experience – in particular in ‘ Time, Tense and Physics: The Theory of Everything But… ’ in Issue 81.
Wrinkled doughnut solves geometrical mystery - physics-math - 30 April 2012
This may be the weirdest doughnut you have ever seen, but it solves a long-standing geometrical puzzle that evaded mathematicians including Nobel laureate John Nash, who inspired the film A Beautiful Mind .THE symbols we use to represent numbers are, mathematically speaking, arbitrary.
Font for digits lets numbers punch their weight - physics-math - 12 May 2012
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