Kerry Whisnant, an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan and professor of physics at Iowa State University, may be on to something that will greatly impact team winning percentages. Mathematical models that he and other fanatic baseball statisticians have helped produce may accurately predict teams' successes. Whisnant and other members of the Society for American Baseball Research have analyzed...
New Discoveries in Math
Many people think that there is nothing new in the field of mathematics, that we have figured everything out. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth, as new discoveries are being made on almost a daily basis. The applications and possibilities are endless. Here we are including an explanation for a few of the more exciting of these discoveries. We hope you enjoy reading through these!
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