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  1. Math

    Square of the Hypotenuse

    There’s a delightful mathematical moment in the movie Merry Andrew, when Danny Kaye, playing schoolmaster Andrew Larabee, breaks into song to teach the Pythagorean theorem. I was reminded of this scene by a sentence in an article about the Pythagorean theorem in the October issue of Mathematics Magazine. The Pythagorean theorem “is probably the only […]

    By Ivars Peterson

  2. Autism Advance: Mutated genes disrupt nerve cell proteins

    Two gene mutations that cause autism suggest that nerve cell connections called synapses are key to the disorder.

    By John Travis
  3. Math

    Poe’s Secret

    Writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) is famous for his short stories of the mysterious and the macabre.