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Science News
April 6, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
The EKG Sequence Sequences of numbers have long fascinated both amateur and professional mathematicians. Here's a recently discovered example that has prompted some serious mathematical investigation...   |
Science News
September 28, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Stepping Beyond Fibonacci Numbers Trying variants of a simple mathematical rule that yields interesting results can lead to additional discoveries and curiosities. |
Science News
June 3, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Missing Flowers The number of petals that a flower has isn't always a Fibonacci number. You have to be careful when you're building mathematical models of natural phenomena. |
Science News
May 28, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Mean Median Surprise Mathematicians found, using three numbers, each M&m (mean and median) sequence they found would stabilize, eventually reaching a constant value. |
Science News
August 28, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
More Progressive Primes In July, Markus Frind, Paul Jobling, and Paul Underwood announced that they had discovered the first sequence consisting of 23 prime numbers in arithmetic progression. This surpasses the previous record of 22 primes in arithmetic progression, set in 1993. |
Science News
March 12, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Other Numbers Generalized Fibonacci arrays have attractive properties and could provide a wealth of further activities for exploration... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
September 24, 2005 |
Math Music An interactive Web site, developed at Eastern Washington University, provides variety of tools for composing music based on mathematical recipes that convert sequences of numbers -- such as pi, or Fibonacci numbers -- into sounds. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2013
Craig L. Israelsen |
Does the Sequence of Market Returns Matter? The markets have good years and bad years, but the impact on a client s investments depends on the timing. |
Science News
November 4, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Designer Decimals Fractions can yield amazingly familiar decimal expansions. |
Science News
June 29, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Dangerous Problems Some mathematical problems are easy to describe but turn out to be notoriously difficult to solve. Nonetheless, despite repeated warnings from those who have failed in the past, these unsolved problems continue to lure mathematicians into hours, days, and even years of futile labor. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Quick Fixes for Web Info-Junkies Got a pet obsession? From sports stats to fine art, you can satisfy your need to know online. Here are some of my favorites. |
Bio-IT World
January 21, 2005
Kevin Davies |
Simulated Shades of Jurassic Park? Bioinformatics researchers have re-created part of the genome sequence of an ancestral mammal that lived 70 million to 80 million years ago. |
Chemistry World
July 13, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Naked mole-rat genome holds clue to beating cancer The recently published draft sequence of the naked mole-rat genome promises to reveal the secrets of its long and remarkably cancer-free existence, potentially providing new targets for anti-cancer drugs. |
Reason
August 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
DNA Dough-Re-Mi A pretty girl may be like a melody, but the music of her DNA could have biotech companies whistling all the way to the bank. An executive at Maxygen, a California biotech firm, has suggested that if DNA sequences were converted to digital music they could be copyrighted as works of art. |
Bio-IT World
November 19, 2004
Kevin Davies |
The Book on Bioinformatics Research director David Mount talks about his new book "Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis," sequence analysis, and teaching bioinformatics |
Reactive Reports
Apr/May 2005
David Bradley |
At Last, the Structure of DNA Researchers have made a significant advance in our understanding of life's main molecule, using X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structures of nearly all the possible sequences of a macromolecule. |
Science News
June 30, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Random Home Runs In the current issue of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, economist Paul M. Sommers of Middlebury College, Vermont, addresses the question of whether top home-run sluggers knock out homers at random or whether they hit in streaks... |
