Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Problems to Sharpen the Young
Medieval brainteasers have kept students and other people puzzled and entertained for centuries.
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Pentomino Pursuits
Pentominoes are flat shapes, or tiles, formed by joining together five unit squares. There are 12 different pentominoes. This set of simple geometrical objects has inspired a variety of puzzles and games, including the addictive pastime known as Tetris. The pentomino Web site, created by students of Belgian math teacher Odette De Meulemeester, provides all […]
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Ranking College Football Teams
Network math leads to an alternative, simpler ranking scheme for college football.
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Climbing a Watery Slope
A water-walking insect can propel itself up steep, slippery slopes without moving its legs.
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Pushing the Limit
Scientists are moving closer to constructing superefficient, noisefree data-transmission codes.
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Ask-a-Friend Marketplaces
If you ask enough friends, paying for answers to questions can help you get the answers you need from a social network.
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Numbers of No Escape
Playful iterative processes can get you stuck in mathemagical black holes.
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Math Music
Curious about the sounds of pi, the music of Fibonacci numbers, the blare of chaos, or the chimes of a DNA sequence? This interactive Web site, developed by Jonathan Middleton and his team at Eastern Washington University, provides a variety of tools for composing music based on mathematical recipes that convert sequences of numbers into […]
