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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
6+ day, 15+ 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…...
Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities
2+ week, 1+ day ago (217+ words) His awe-inspiring proof for the resolution of singularities — such as peaks, edges and self-crossings — revolutionized algebraic geometry....
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…...
Finding Zero: Odyssey to Uncover the Origin of Numbers
2+ week, 2+ day ago (889+ words) Book Review | Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers organiser.org Book Review | Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers One of the most interesting features of Finding Zero is the way…...
Pythagoras won???t balance your books
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (568+ words) Every year, thousands of Arts students struggle with mathematics. Some fail it repeatedly. Some lose university opportunities because of it. Others leave school convinced that they are simply “bad at maths.” Perhaps the problem is not always the student. Perhaps,…...
Costa Rica’s Wild Capuchin Monkeys Are Using AI Touchscreens: The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate
4+ week, 1+ day ago (323+ words) Wild white-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica are learning to use a touchscreen in the middle of the forest, giving researchers a new way to study animal intelligence without taking the monkeys out of their natural environment. The system, called…...
The Monkey Series: Learning to See Beyond the Subject
2+ week, 6+ day ago (21+ words) Explore the Monkey Series through wildlife photography, observation, composition, and the art of seeing beyond the subject to find meaningful photographs....
The Golden Hour Geometry
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (498+ words) The window frame within the frame When the sun is low on the horizon and its rays break through gaps in the clouds like this, it often creates distinct, visible beams of …...
What the mathematics of billiards can tell us about loving and letting go
4+ week, 2+ day ago (479+ words) As the saying goes, "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was." What most people don't tell you is that if you let that something go from exactly…...
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 …...