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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (135+ words) Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor -- a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. Posted by retort at 03:45 PM | 0 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Read the Retort…...
Announcing the winners: Maths Tales competition
1+ week, 3+ day ago (103+ words) Scottish Book Trust Announcing the winners: Maths Tales competition During Maths Week Scotland in September, the Maths Tales writing competition was launched. Maths Week Scotland and Read Write Count with the First Minister teamed up to challenge young authors in…...
When Meaning Becomes Geometry
10+ hour, 45+ min ago (36+ words) There’s a sentence I keep returning to, one I first read in a paper and then couldn’t stop thinking about: a word is known by the company it keeps. It sounds like …...
Giraffes can do simple maths: Study
4+ week, 1+ day ago (80+ words) | The study was published in Scientific Reports | Inshorts Inshorts Giraffes can do simple maths: Study A study by the University of Barcelona has found that some giraffes can determine which of two options contains more food after mentally combining two…...
Pythagoras won’t balance your books
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (61+ words) GhanaWeb - You are only allowed to submit content which you have created yourself. - No nudity, pornography and any unlawful content is permitted. - You grant GhanaWeb the right to publish and use your content. - You allow GhanaWeb to communicate with you…...
Pythagoras won???t balance your books
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (568+ words) year, thousands of Arts students struggle with mathematics. Some fail it repeatedly. Some lose university...engineer. Why must Sefa write essentially the same Mathematics examination as Glovus? Of course, both need mathematics. But do they need the same mathematics, at…...
Here’s How Albert Einstein Proved Pythagoras Theorem When He Was 11
3+ week, 6+ day ago (31+ words) When looking through the book Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Manfred R. Schroeder, I came …...
You Know the Pythagorean Theorem, But Do You Really Understand It?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1544+ words) Introduction As arguably the most famous single theorem in mathematics due to its simplicity …...
There are just five perfect shapes in math—here's why
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (592+ words) Admittedly, their names offer no special aesthetic appeal. But their forms are unique. Platonic solids are polyhedrons with the highest possible symmetry. Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces…...
What the mathematics of billiards can tell us about loving and letting go
4+ week, 2+ day ago (479+ words) resistant problems in dynamical systems, a field of mathematics that studies how motion and change unfold over...typically related to lots of other subjects in mathematics; it makes them a very attractive thing to study."...