 Free software brings affordability, transparency to mathematics December 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
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Until recently, a student solving a calculus problem, a physicist modeling a galaxy or a mathematician studying a complex equation had to use powerful computer programs that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. ... | |
Reliable, fast simulations of complex events Virginia Tech mathematician's goal July 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Timely, accurate prediction or control of complex phenomena – such as predicating the path of a hurricane or controlling a jet -- is the goal of Serkan Gugercin’s National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development ... | |
Public schools as good as private schools in raising math scores, study says May 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new University of Illinois study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly ... | |
 The Mathematics of Natural Motion May 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Circles, slaloms, figure eights, and loop-the-loops – biologists studying the motion of Listeria monocytogenes sensed that these paths were related, but they didn’t have a good way to define what fit in and ... | |
 Mathematicians Reveal Secrets of the Ancient and Universal Art of Symmetry May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Humans have used symmetrical patterns for thousands of years in both functional and decorative ways. Now, a new book by three mathematicians offers both math experts and enthusiasts a new way to understand ... | |
Making waves: Mathematicians crack quantum chaos conjecture October 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 64 vote(s)
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The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number ... | |
Book Assails Unrealistic Mathematical Models January 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Using equations to forecast the specific behavior of complex natural processes such as beach erosion and long-term nuclear waste storage creates a false sense of security, according to a new book by a retired Duke University ... | |
 Where mathematics and astrophysics meet June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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The mathematicians were trying to extend an illustrious result in their field, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. The astrophysicists were working on a fundamental problem in their field, the problem of gravitational ... | |
 Algorithm finds the network -- for genes or the Internet March 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Human diseases and social networks seem to have little in common. However, at the crux of these two lies a network, communities within the network, and farther even, substructures of the communities. In a ... | |
Mathematicians find new solutions to an ancient puzzle March 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 81 vote(s)
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Many people find complex math puzzling, including some mathematicians. Recently, mathematician Daniel J. Madden and retired physicist, Lee W. Jacobi, found solutions to a puzzle that has been around for centuries. | |
Brown mathematicians prove new way to build a better estimate February 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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How do you sift through hundreds of billions of bits of information and make accurate inferences from such gargantuan sets of data? Brown University mathematician Charles “Chip” Lawrence and graduate student Luis Carvalho ... | |
 The Best Way to Board a Plane February 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 124 vote(s)
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Most airlines board passengers the same way, first filling the seats in the back of the plane, and then moving to the front. After a recent experience boarding a plane in this manner, Fermilab physicist Jason ... | |
 Linking low frequency hearing to the cochlea's curvature April 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Shape matters, even in hearing. Specifically, it is the shape of the cochlea — the snail-shell-shaped organ in the inner ear that converts sound waves into nerve impulses that the brain deciphers — which proves ... | |
140-year-old math problem solved by researcher March 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 88 vote(s)
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A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London. | |
Glimpses of a new (mathematical) world March 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 71 vote(s)
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A new mathematical object was revealed yesterday during a lecture at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). Two researchers from the University of Bristol exhibited the first example of a third degree transcendental ... | |
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