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The Geomblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Via Anand Kulkarni (aka polybot ) comes an interesting article in the WSJ by Masha Gessen on Grigori Perelman, Soviet-era mathematics and the question of 'big math'. The premise of the article (Masha Gessen has a book out on Perelman and the Poincare conjecture) is that special environments are needed to prove big results, and the Soviet-era mathematical enclaves fostered this environment both because...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
( University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee ) A study getting under way at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the first systematic study of women's retention in engineering. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the study, POWER (Project on Women Engineers' Retention) includes an online survey open to all women who have completed at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, whether or not they...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of Hernando de Soto's 1540 journey through the Southeast. No evidence of De Soto's path from Tallahassee to North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats.
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What's new (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
As the previous discussion on displaying mathematics on the web has become quite lengthy, I am opening a fresh post to continue the topic. I’m leaving the previous thread open for those who wish to respond directly to some specific comments in that thread, but otherwise it would be preferable to start afresh on this [...]
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Explaining mathematics (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The screencast of the 2009-10 edition of How do we do proofs? (Part II) is now available from http://wirksworthii.nottingham.ac.uk/webcast/maths/G12MAN-09-10/How-Proofs-II-0910/ Here some background knowledge of convergence of series is assumed. There is an associated handout available at http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/jff/Teaching/Standard-Series.pdf with some relevant background material, including...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Carotenoids, the family of yellow to red pigments found in pumpkins and tomatoes, plays an important role in human health by acting as sources of provitamin A or as protective antioxidants but identifying and quantifying carotenoids hasn't been simple. Florida researchers investigated whether color analysis can be used to predict carotenoid content. Results indicate the new method "will be successful,...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Many apple varieties common in the United States a century ago can no longer be found in today's orchards and nurseries. But some historic apple trees still survive in abandoned farmsteads and historic orchards throughout the US. Now, scientists interested in conserving these horticultural treasures have set out to identify and catalogue them, working to discover if the last remnants of historical...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In their natural form, conch pearls are among the rarest pearls in the world. For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch have been unsuccessful -- until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded and non-beaded high-quality cultured pearls from the queen conch have been developed by scientists.
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Explaining mathematics (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The University of Nottingham YouTube channel (NottmUniversity) now has a Mathematics Playlist, which you can find at http://www.youtube.com/user/NottmUniversity#g/c/A9721D7E1FB7CD34 So far you can find three of my movies/screencasts there. See http://www.youtube.com/user/NottmUniversity#g/p for all of the Nottingham University YouTube playlists Joel Feinstein Posted in Mathematics, Teaching
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The Geomblog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
As the polylogblogdogslogglog blog points out , the ICS results are out . 39 papers were accepted in all - at some point I knew the number of submissions, but I've forgotten since. The ICS folks didn't make life easy for themselves by explicitly stating that they wanted "conceptual contributions". But looking over the list of papers, a few things come to mind: It's a great list of papers....
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The Geomblog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Jeff's post on his computational topology class (and the wonderful class outline ), prompted me to write about something that I've tried to explain to people before. Computational topology is arguably the hottest thing in SoCG-land right now, and has been so for a number of years (for curious folk, the "other" hot topic is high dimensional approximate geometry). But if you ask different people,...
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A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people): On science writing and journalism: Scientists can't write? and Science journalism--critical analysis, not debate and Three kinds...
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The Task Force on American Innovation today unveiled a new website, www.innovationtaskforce.org, which offers fresh and comprehensive information on federal policies and appropriations for key agencies that fund research in the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics.
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In the Dark (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
It’s been a couple of weeks since the University of Cambridge announced that the successor to Stephen Hawking as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics would be Michael Green, who is best known for his work on string theory. Heartiest congratulations to him for reaching a position of such eminence. I was trying to think of a suitable [...]
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dickdaisy | 10/14/2009
And this is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program, Explorations. Today we tell about a scientist who changed the way we understand the universe, Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein, Mathematics, Experiments http://www.1-language.com/eslnews/explore030122.htm
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getz3551 | 01/19/2009
First step to get top score in Exam is solve different type of paper. If you solve more paper, yow will get top score in each subject. So we get here link for CBSC Mathematics paper set Begin by honestly assessing your strengths and weaknesses in basic college skills—reading, writing, listening, and mathematics—and study/work habits such as organization, time management, concentration, listening, and...
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alupulx7 | 11/11/2008
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime. An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
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