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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
6+ day, 19+ 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…...
The Monkey Series: Learning to See Beyond the Subject
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (21+ words) Explore the Monkey Series through wildlife photography, observation, composition, and the art of seeing beyond the subject to find meaningful photographs....
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…...
Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities
2+ week, 2+ 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, 4+ 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…...
Costa Rica’s Wild Capuchin Monkeys Are Using AI Touchscreens: The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate
4+ week, 2+ 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…...
Pastor’s Corner: Monkey physics!
3+ week, 2+ day ago (288+ words) Tama-Toledo News Chronicle Pastor’s Corner: Monkey physics! Pastor Mike Nodland of the Christian Fellowship Church in Vining, IA. I recall my college statistics professor telling the class that you can prove anything with statistics, meaning also that statistics can lie!...
Ancient Geometry Hits the Screen: Ohio’s Hopewell Earthworks Featured in Public Television Series 'How It’s Math"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (194+ words) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Long before modern surveying equipment, computers, or blueprints existed, ancient Native Americans utilized sophisticated geometry to construct monumental earthen architecture across southern Ohio. Now, that ancient mathematical mastery is taking center stage for a national audience of young…...
Capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica learn to use touch screen with AI to obtain bananas in innovative experiment
3+ week, 4+ day ago (383+ words) A group of researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has placed an innovative device in the heart of the Taboga Forest Reserve in Costa Rica. This device, which includes a touchscreen and a food dispenser controlled…...
Scientists Say: Symmetry
1+ week, 6+ day ago (596+ words) Repeating patterns in shapes build everything from snowflakes to the body plans of life By folding a piece of paper in half and cutting a shape — such as a heart — from both sides at once, you can make a shape…...