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The Galois Story The tragic tale of Evariste Galois (1811-1832), a mathematical prodigy who died in a duel at the tender age of 20, is one of the more dramatic stories in the history of mathematics. |
Science News
April 30, 2005
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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. |
Science News
May 11, 2002
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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... |
Science News
June 12, 2004
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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. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2013
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Mathematical modeling in science and engineering This book, by Ismael Herrera and George Pinder, is intended as an introductory text to bridge the gap between scientists and mathematicians. |
Science News
December 8, 2001
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The Math Hatter and More Looking for a cool gift for someone mathematically inclined? An unusual, conversation-generating token of appreciation? The World Wide Web offers a number of intriguing possibilities -- if you know where to stop and shop... |
