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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
November 3, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Absolutely Abnormal Identifying the normal (or even the abnormal) in mathematics can pose serious difficulties... |
Science News
October 16, 2004 |
A Catalog of Random Bits A computer scientist and collaborators have identified a variety of flaws in computer-based random number generators, invented more robust versions of existing generators, and developed a suite of rigorous tests to check for randomness... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
November 14, 2008
Julie Rehmeyer |
How To (really) Trust A Mathematical Proof Mathematicians develop computer proof-checking systems in order to realize century-old dreams of fully precise, accurate mathematics. |
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. |
Chemistry World
June 1, 2012
Andrea Sella |
Turing's machine Alan Turing, perhaps not often remembered as a chemist, stands out for providing the starting point for computational chemistry and for presenting a chemical hypothesis for the spontaneous appearance of structure. |
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
December 14, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
A Trillion Pieces of Pi Computer scientist Yasumasa Kanada and his coworkers at the University of Tokyo Information Technology Center have now succeeded in computing 1,241,100,000,000 decimal digits of pi, smashing their own previous world record of 206,158,430,000 digits, set in 1999. |
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... |
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
September 27, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
The Bias of Random-Number Generators Researchers in Germany have provided some mathematical insight into why many random-number generators give wrong results in so-called cluster Monte Carlo simulations and related computational experiments. |
Wired
August 2003
Tom McNichol |
Totally Random How two math geeks with a lava lamp and a webcam are about to unleash chaos on the Internet. |
Science News
April 24, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Progressive Primes In one step toward elucidating certain primal mysteries, two mathematicians have now apparently proved that the population of primes contains an infinite collection of arithmetic progressions. |
Science News
January 4, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Sound-Byte Math Music Swedish composer Daniel Cummerow has created mathematical sound bytes belonging to a category known as algorithmic music. Each musical fragment is determined by a mathematical recipe -- a formula that links digits with musical notes and their duration... |
Scientific American
June 20, 2005
Philip E. Ross |
Math without Words Numerical reasoning seems independent of language. |
Science News
May 5, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Lava Lamp Randomness Invented in 1963, a decorative fixture in many homes during the 1970s, and still in production, Lava Lite lamps are now the object of renewed curiosity. Indeed, researchers have come up with a novel application of the mesmerizing movements of the lamp's globules, as randomization seeds... |
Science News
March 30, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Rainbow Randomness The branch of pure mathematics known as Ramsey theory concerns the existence of highly regular patterns in sufficiently large sets of randomly selected objects. Patterns can arise out of randomness in a variety of ways... |
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? |
Science News
November 15, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Cool Rationals One of my more distinct recollections of math class involves the decimal representation of rational numbers and the discovery of wonderful patterns among those digits. A new paper finds fascinating new patterns and provides some numerological explanations. |
Science News
July 29, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Names for Numbers Recreational mathematics offers a vast playing field for amateur and professional mathematicians alike. Named numbers, such as Smiths, have all sorts of intriguing properties. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
Ben Klemens |
Software Patents Don't Compute How the U.S. patent system attempts to draw a dividing line between patentable machines and unpatentable mathematics- and why the system is failing. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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
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
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Taylor & Cox |
Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator This random-number generator uses digital circuits to stump the smartest hackers. |
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
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
June 8, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Fractal Roots and Artful Math The MathArt/ArtMath exhibition showcases mathematical art. |
Bio-IT World
September 2006
John A. Wass |
Integrating Knowledge The results of new mathematical routines have the potential to save pharmaceuticals millions of dollars in drug development. And yet the flow of successful drugs is dwindling. The problem goes beyond bureaucracy and lies in the complexity of the problem. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Robert W. Lucky |
Is Math Still Relevant? The queen of the sciences may someday lose its royal status |
