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April 6, 2002
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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
May 17, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Sequence Puzzles Neil A.J. Sloane of AT&T Shannon Labs in Florham Park, N.J., has been collecting number sequences ever since he was a graduate student at Cornell University in the 1960s. |
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
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. |
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
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
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004 |
TAB 2.2, Paperless Animation Software The program offers a large collection of new features, including support for Mac OS X, a type tool, context menus, improved sequence management, and the ability to create animations ready to be played on mobile phones and wireless devices in 3GP format. |
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. |
Science News
March 4, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
The Limits of Mathematics No matter what the system of axioms or rules is, there will always be some assertion that can be neither proved nor invalidated within the system. |
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... |
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. |
