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Chemical linguistics Many things are considered to be 'like language'. Music is one, mathematics another, chemistry a very close third.   |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
November 19, 2008
Kate Schweitzer |
Fringe's Music to Math Connection Contains as Much Fact as Fiction Is there really a connection between mathematics and music? |
Scientific American
February 19, 2006 |
What is Godel's Proof? Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem demonstrates that mathematics contains true statements that cannot be proved. His proof achieves this by constructing paradoxical mathematical statements. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
David Appell |
Math = beauty + truth / (really hard) Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try. |
Science News
June 12, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Groups, Graphs, and Erdos Numbers Perhaps more than any other mathematician in modern times, Paul Erdos (1913-1996) epitomized the strength and breadth of mathematical collaboration. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 20, 2014
Kim Girard |
Language Wars Divide Global Companies An increasing number of global firms adopt a primary language for business operations -- usually English. The problem: The practice can surface dormant hostilities around culture and geography, reports Tsedal Neeley. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 24, 2014
Michael Blanding |
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility Research by Christopher Marquis shows that a company's degree of social responsibility is affected by a surprising factor -- the language it uses to communicate. |
Science News
April 30, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Works in Progress Part of a mathematical education should include some sense of what is known and what is not yet known (and may never be known) and what progress is being made in creating new mathematics. |
Information Today
November 11, 2014
Woody Evans |
Big Numbers: Google Challenges Wolfram to Open Up Math Sage, the free and open source analog to Wolfram Research's Mathematica, is now SageMathCloud. Thanks to collaboration with Google's cloud services, Sage is now in a position to draw more mathematicians to its community. |
AskMen.com
Bernard Croisile |
5 Daily Brain Exercises Many men are devoted to exercise to bulk up their bodies, but the phrase "use it or lose it" also applies to the neural pathways and connections in our brains. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 9, 2009
Jennifer Demski |
Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics. |
Science News
November 29, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
The Cow in the Classroom There is a difference between mathematical exercises disguised as episodes of everyday life and real mathematics applied in the real world. It's a distinction that's not always apparent in the mathematics classroom. |
Science News
November 10, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Good Stories, Good Math Preschoolers who can tell good stories develop good mathematical skills by the first grade. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
Robert W. Lucky |
Math Blues Has mathematics disappeared behind the screens of our monitors, as have so many other subjects since engineering began to center increasingly on writing software? |
Information Today
July 16, 2009 |
Gale and K12, Inc. to Develop New Language Learning Products Power-Glide Language Courses, Inc. (known as powerspeaK 12), a subsidiary of K 12, Inc., will develop web-based language courses, which Gale will distribute exclusively to the library market. |
Chemistry World
February 2012 |
Column: In the pipeline Every lab should have a common working language (presumably that of the country where it's located), and it should be the responsibility of every person in it to be able to at least get along with its basic vocabulary. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 17, 2010
Ruth Reynard |
Real-Time Technology in Middle School Language Instruction Recently, I interviewed a German language middle school teacher and she shared with me her uses for Web 2.0 tools in foreign language instruction. |
Science News
July 15, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Math Trek: Flirting with the Impossible Common sense by itself is too limiting for making progress in mathematics. New concepts arise out of leaps of imagination. And such out-of-the-box thinking puts mathematics into a rich intellectual landscape that it shares with physics, philosophy, literature, and art. |
Science News
January 28, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Math Plus Crime, TV Style More than 12 million people have been tuning in to see the latest episode of the CBS TV series Numb3rs, a crime series that features a mathematician as its superhero, incorporates genuine mathematical vocabulary, and displays the varied trappings of a mathematical life. |
