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Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile Joy as mathematicians discover a new type of pentagon that can cover the plane leaving no gaps and with no overlaps. It becomes only the 15th type of pentagon known that can do this, and the first discovered in 30 years
Mathematics Source: TheGuardian
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Tuesday, Aug 11, 2015, 10:51am Rating: | Views: 3191 | Comments: 0
The World is Full of Circles In honor of a very special Pi Day, enjoy this map that explores the human-made and natural structures that come closest to a perfect circle
Mathematics Source: Smithsonian
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Friday, Mar 13, 2015, 7:56am Rating: | Views: 1323 | Comments: 0
Mathematics Source: TheGuardian
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Tuesday, Feb 24, 2015, 8:51am Rating: | Views: 1176 | Comments: 0
Thank This Geographer for Making Sure New Maps Aren’t a Total Mess So you fired up your GIS software and made an eye-popping, Christmas-colored map of holiday sales figures. Good job, genius, you’ve created a cartographic calamity: nearly unreadable by the color-blind and merely unintuitive to everyone else. You obviously haven’t met Cindy Brewer.
Mathematics Source: Wired
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Tuesday, Feb 03, 2015, 10:49am Rating: | Views: 1212 | Comments: 0
Mathematics Source: CBSNews
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Thursday, Jan 29, 2015, 8:11am Rating: | Views: 1140 | Comments: 0
On The Ant Highway, There's Never A Backup A team of Indian physicists has made a mathematical model that purports to explain why ants don't have traffic jams. NPR's Joe Palca explains as part of his series, Joe's Big Idea.
Mathematics Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Jan 27, 2015, 9:02am Rating: | Views: 1081 | Comments: 0
Mathematics Source: Reuters
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Tuesday, Jan 20, 2015, 7:37am Rating: | Views: 1116 | Comments: 0
The golden ratio has spawned a beautiful new curve: the Harriss spiral Inspired by the golden ratio, mathematician Edmund Harriss discovered a delightful fractal curve that no one had ever drawn before. But it’s not just a pretty picture, it contains some lovely theory – and brings the golden ratio into a family of perfect proportions.
Mathematics Source: TheGuardian
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Tuesday, Jan 13, 2015, 11:06am Rating: | Views: 1232 | Comments: 0
New Algorithms Search for Signs of Consciousness in Brain Injury Patients After a severe brain injury, some people remain in a vegetative or minimally conscious state, unable to speak or move intentionally, and apparently unaware of the world around them. But in recent years, neuroscientists have found signs that some of these patients may still be conscious, at least to a degree. Now researchers have used a branch of mathematics called graph theory to search for neural signatures of consciousness.
Neuroscience Source: Wired
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Friday, Oct 17, 2014, 9:38am Rating: | Views: 1105 | Comments: 0
How Global Shipping Could Change Our Understanding of Biodiversity A new study argues that the theory biologists use to predict an ecosystem's biodiversity should be modified to account for the global economy. The post How Global Shipping Could Change Our Understanding of Biodiversity appeared first on WIRED.
First female winner for maths medal Iranian mathematician Prof Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win a Fields Medal at a ceremony in Seoul, South Korea.
Mathematics Source: BBC News
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Wednesday, Aug 13, 2014, 7:45am Rating: | Views: 1173 | Comments: 0
This Is What Math Equations Look Like in 3-D These mysterious surfaces were made more than a century ago by mathematicians to answer a simple question: What does an equation look like?
Mathematics Source: Wired
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Wednesday, Jun 25, 2014, 1:42pm Rating: | Views: 1335 | Comments: 0
Mathematics Source: TIME Magazine
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Tuesday, Jun 17, 2014, 8:01am Rating: | Views: 1114 | Comments: 0
What’s Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note of this phenomenon at least as early as the 1960s, it is only in recent years that social scientists have collected enough data to show how this happens pretty much every time we build new roads.
Mathematics Source: Wired
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Tuesday, Jun 17, 2014, 8:01am Rating: | Views: 1264 | Comments: 0
How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution Johannes Kepler, one of the world's great mathematicians, decided to marry in 1611. He made a list of 11 women to interview and he wanted, of course, to choose the best. Here's the formula.
Mathematics Source: NPR
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Thursday, May 15, 2014, 7:46am Rating: | Views: 1113 | Comments: 0