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Song-and-Dance Fermat Fermat's Last Tango, a musical based on the story of Fermat's last theorem and the quest to prove it, is cheerful, clever, and entertaining. Its varied music is engaging. It puts mathematics on display as an intensely human endeavor... |
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December 2, 2000
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Zeroing In on Catalan's Conjecture Preda Mihailescu of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has proved a theorem that is likely to lead to a solution of Catalan's conjecture, a venerable problem involving relationships among whole numbers... |
Science News
November 14, 2008
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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. |
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March 1, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Cracking Fermat Numbers Fermat numbers have what mathematicians sometimes describe as a "beautiful mathematical form," involving powers of 2. They were of interest 400 years ago and are now the subject of a wide-ranging worldwide computer search. |
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. |
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October 23, 2004
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Young Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss, at 10-years old, discovered a simple method for summing an arithmetic sequence (or arithmetic progression)... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
February 10, 2007
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Divide-and-Conquer Multiplication The most efficient way to multiply two large numbers is often far from obvious. |
Science News
April 12, 2003
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Constructing Domino Portraits One rendition of a famous portrait was constructed entirely from 48 complete sets of double-nine dominoes. The work of mathematician Robert Bosch of Oberlin College, this remarkable creation represents the successful application of a novel algorithm for approximating target images as arrays of dominoes. |
