Math Blog

Post date: 26

Post date: Jun

Title: Formulas Make Art

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High school students in San Diego are finding more uses for their math formulas. They're creating art for display in the community.

Read this story from the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Post date: 21

Post date: Jun

Title: More Soccer Science

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Here's one more example of how researchers are using science to track (and understand) athletic performance.

Post date: 15

Post date: Jun

Title: "Soccer" or "football" ... or math?

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Call it what you will, to scientific researchers, it means math.

As the world turns its attention to South Africa this month for the 19th FIFA World Cup, mathematicians are finding themselves drawn to the event as well. The international football tournament provides another opportunity for mathematicians to study the nature of sport statistics.

And their findings and predictions may surprise you.

Post date: 08

Post date: Jun

Title: Three Puzzles Keep Mathematician in Memory

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This article from Scientific American presents three puzzles by Martin Gardner, a respected mathematician who died recently. Give 'em a try.

Post date: 04

Post date: Jun

Title: World loses "eminent" mathematician

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Vladimir Arnold, one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century, died Thursday in France. Among many awards and recognitions Arnold received in his professional career, he was presented the Crafoord Prize in 1982 and in 2001, the World Prize in Mathematics.

He is also known as the coauthor of the KAM theorum of classical mechanics, for which the 'A' in KAM is his initial. The theorem deals with mechanical trajectories.

In his later years, he worked at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow and the Moscow State University. Arnold was 72 years old.

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"It should be evident that each step in my career has rested on a firm foundation in mathematics. For me, the study of mathematics was the key that opened the doors to the universe."

— Robert L. Stewart

NASA Astronaut

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Post date: 03

Post date: Sep

Title: Math is Beautiful, Too

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The world is obsessed with beautiful people, things and places.

Adam Frank's blog on NPR explores the beauty of the Euler Identity. What in math is beautiful to you?

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