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Category Archives: Mathematics
German teen solves riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton
A German 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago. Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to … Continue reading
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Landmark calculation clears the way to answering how matter is formed
An international collaboration of scientists, including Thomas Blum, associate professor of physics, is reporting in landmark detail the decay process of a subatomic particle called a kaon – information that may help answer fundamental questions about how the universe began. … Continue reading
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Freezing glass may shed light on a great mystery in mathematics
The way in which disorderly systems like glasses freeze could shed light on one of the greatest enigmas in mathematics today. The mystery in question concerns prime numbers, which are essentially the elementary particles of arithmetic — a prime number such … Continue reading
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Belphegor’s Prime
Don’t stare at this number for too long as it is obviously the Devil’s work! A palindromic prime number starting with a 1 followed by 13, yes 13, zeros then 666 (the number of the beast) another 13 zeros and a final 1. Named … Continue reading
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How do you generate prime numbers?
Click to regenerate There are a number of ways to generate primes. One of the oldest is known as the ‘Sieve of Eratosthenes’, named after the Greek mathematician and scholar (who also invented a system of latitude and longitude). Here’s … Continue reading
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Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli (29 January 1700 – 17 March 1782) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and … Continue reading
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The mathematics of jury size
Could different jury sizes improve the quality of justice? The answers are not clear, but mathematicians are analyzing juries to identify potential improvements. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it say that juries in criminal cases must include 12 people, or … Continue reading
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Alan Turing exhibition shows another side of the Enigma codebreaker
Alan Turing has gone down in history as the man who cracked the Enigma code, changing the course of the second world war, and whose work in mathematics and computer sciences was instrumental in bringing about the personal computers we … Continue reading
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New mathematical model explains how hosts survive parasite attacks
In nature, how do host species survive parasite attacks? This has not been well understood, until now. A new mathematical model shows that when a host and its parasite each have multiple traits governing their interaction, the host has a … Continue reading
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Asteroid has 625-1 chance of hitting the earth
We need to talk. You’d better sit down. According to astronomers at the Mount Lemmon observatory in Arizona, there is an asteroid – they’re calling it “2011 AG5″ – whose current orbit gives it a one in 625 chance of … Continue reading
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Math can save Tylenol overdose patients
University of Utah mathematicians developed a set of calculus equations to make it easier for doctors to save Tylenol overdose patients by quickly estimating how much painkiller they took, when they consumed it and whether they will require a liver … Continue reading
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Alan Turing’s 1950s tiger stripe theory proved
Researchers from King’s College London have provided the first experimental evidence confirming a great British mathematician’s theory of how biological patterns such as tiger stripes or leopard spots are formed. The study, funded by the Medical Research Council and to be … Continue reading
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The Schwarzschild Radius
The concept of a black hole, a space in which so much matter was packed that the gravitational pull prevents the escape of light, was known as far back as the 18th century. But it was seen as more of … Continue reading
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The most interesting mathematical mistake in the solar system
Johann Elert Bode is the author of Bode’s Law, one of the most contentious laws in astronomy. It’s a ridiculous idea which juggles numbers, seemingly for no reason, and it ends up revealing the spacing of the planets in the … Continue reading
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No.12407 wins the interesting number paradox
The interesting number paradox is a semi-humorous paradox that arises from attempting to classify natural numbers as “interesting” or “dull”. The paradox states that all natural numbers are interesting. The “proof” is by contradiction: if there were uninteresting numbers, there … Continue reading
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World’s Hardest Sudoku
Number cruncher Dr Arto Inkala created this challenge to rival the AI Escargot grid he drew up in 2006 – widely regarded as the most difficult yet. Can you complete this demon grid? - Deskarati -
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What was the first math problem that we needed a computer to solve?
In the 1970s, a remarkable thing was done; a computer was used to solve a math problem. This, in and of itself, was not remarkable. The difference engine could do it. But this problem was the first one that would … Continue reading
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A revolution in knot theory
In the 19th century, Lord Kelvin made the inspired guess that elements are knots in the “ether”. Hydrogen would be one kind of knot, oxygen a different kind of knot—and so forth throughout the periodic table of elements. This idea … Continue reading
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