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| Wednesday Mar 28, 2012 | Voronoi diagrams,
or sufaces if you're
in 3D,
are a way to
divide space based on a distribution of points. It's popular
in design, because it gives
nicely formed,
organic-looking
shapes. They're incredibly useful
for
all sorts of
geometric applications
And now you can
make bookshelves
out of them. to Mathematics by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 15, 2006 | The conventional story of the invention of calculus holds that Newton and Leibniz independently developed methods for integration and differentiation. Although this account is a matter of dispute, it is also probably wrong. The Yuktibhāsā provides a description of integration which predated both Newton's and Leibniz's work by approximately 130 years. to Mathematics by fool |
| Wednesday Nov 30, 2005 | Get lost (har har) in
mazes and labyrinths
and the algorithms
used to create and solve them. to Mathematics by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 21, 2003 | Hardy said "Mathematics ... is a young man's game." But it turns out when looking at the data on the issue, we find that older men and women play the game. Perhaps Hardy should have quipped "Mathematics is a game for those deep in their primes." to Mathematics by fool |
| Sunday Apr 27, 2003 | Are you
innumerate? The latest
polls show you share your plight with
7/5 of the U.S. population.
But you can cure your innumeracy by visiting the
site of the author
who coined the term and has written
countless articles on the phenomenon.
For the low, low price of
one quintillion pennies, you can learn to
visualise numbers large and small,
and one day realise there are some
perfectly good reasons to
play with your math. to Mathematics by tinfoil |
| Thursday Sep 12, 2002 | Tensegrity structures, typified by Kenneth Snelson's
Needle Tower,
are structures whose elements rely on tension and compression without torque. Typically,
this means that the rigid elements do not touch each other.
You can construct a small tensegrity sphere out of soda straws and rubber bands, or a large one with quite a bit of patience as well.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Friday Sep 6, 2002 | 2300 years after Euclid penned Elements, a thorough treatise on geometry, Oliver Byrne published his version, in which the striking use of color creates beautiful visual explanations of Euclid's work. A more modern advance represents each proof through the use of interactive java.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Monday Aug 12, 2002 | I was mildly interested when I read that an error-proof prime number test was found. But, I got distracted by prime number games, mazes and spirals.
to Mathematics by dross |
| Tuesday Jul 2, 2002 | It seems that being a mathematician is a dangerous enterprise at times; just ask Hypatia and Galois. And you thought they were all squares.
to Mathematics by fool |
| Friday Apr 5, 2002 | Chisenbop is a method of doing basic arithmetic using your fingers.
to Mathematics by joshua |
| Monday Feb 4, 2002 | The Student's t-Distribution was named such because the bloke who first published this statistical function was forced by Guinness Breweries (his employer) to use a pseudonym.
to Mathematics by fool |
| Wednesday Dec 12, 2001 | Russell Crowe and Ron Howard's upcoming film A Beautiful Mind is based on the book of same name, a story about mathematician John Nash: Nobel Laureate, father of modern economics, and a demigod (along with John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, John Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten) of game theory. You can read Nash's autobiographical sketch from the 1994 Nobel Prize to get some additional insight into his life beyond what's portrayed in the movie. to Mathematics by dnm |
| Thursday Nov 29, 2001 | Math is useful for body piercings.
to Mathematics by onigame |
| Wednesday Oct 31, 2001 | Forget about your birthday ... is your name in pi? to Mathematics by onigame |
| Tuesday Oct 16, 2001 | Alkulukuja Paskova Karhu gives a whole new meaning to "passing math." to Mathematics by ron2112 |
| Monday Oct 8, 2001 | Programs that print themselves are called "Quines".
If that's not enough recursion for you, then try
Godel, Escher, and
Bach. Or perhaps you'd rather read the book
by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
to Mathematics by tourist |
| Friday Sep 7, 2001 | Plenty of resources abound for the comprehension of valid proofs, but are scant
for the detection of invalid ones.
to Mathematics by urog |
| Monday Sep 3, 2001 | Jack Valenti
versus the
laws of
mathematics.
You mean that DMCA thing
isn't over yet?
to Mathematics by voidptr |
| Thursday Jan 4, 2001 | Dr. Math answers any math question, from Elementary School
to College level, with cogent and concise explanations.
to Mathematics by joshua |
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