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For some people, math can be a necessary headache. Yes, algorithms guide countless aspects of daily life. There are tips to calculate and hours to count. But unless someone's a specialist, they'll ...
Mathematics is visible everywhere in nature, even where we are not expecting it. It can help explain the way galaxies spiral, a seashell curves, patterns replicate, and rivers bend.
The equation contains the five most important numbers in math — 1, 0, pi, i, and e — with the three basic operations that give math structure: Addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
Sean Nank, an award-winning math educator, discusses the challenges of teaching mathematics—and the subject's greatness.
Terrific, surprisingly gripping true-life tale of a math genius battling madness. Running time: 129 minutes. Rated R (adult themes). At the Lincoln Square, the Union Square. ‘A Beautiful Mind ...
Fractal geometry is one of the most elegant and beautiful branches of mathematics. An early analysis of fractals came from a surprising and weird phenomenon that occurs when you try to measure a ...
A 4chan poster may have solved part of a very tricky math problem that mathematicians have been working on for at least 25 years. The user was just trying to figure out the most efficient way to ...
The idea that patterns in crops would contain mathematical elements seems very mysterious to many crop circle aficionados. After all, it proves that some sort of intelligence is behind the design.
Art, nature and design all benefit from the Golden Mean and the beautiful math of the Fibonacci sequence ...