Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Playing Pig, Optimally
The simple dice game Pig is surprisingly complex when you're trying to find an optimal strategy for playing it.
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A Measure of Beauty
In the 1930s, mathematician G.D. Birkhoff proposed a formula for computing aesthetic value.
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Extra Time, Math, and the SAT
Extra time on the math portion of the SAT helps the most able students the most.
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Glimpses of Genius
By studying a puzzle that Archimedes pondered 2,200 years ago, mathematicians are obtaining new insights into its intriguing geometric structure.
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Extra Time, Math, and the SAT
Extra time on the math portion of the SAT helps the most able students the most.
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Counting on Fibonacci
Fibonacci numbers and their relationships can be visualized in terms of tilings.
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Progressive Primes
Prime numbers have all sorts of remarkable and mysterious properties. Evenly divisible only by themselves and 1, primes can’t be written as the product of smaller positive integers. There are infinitely many of them, and they appear to be scattered somewhat haphazardly among the whole numbers. It’s not yet known if there are infinitely many […]
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Primal Progress: Pattern hunters spy order among prime numbers
The population of prime numbers includes an infinite collection of arithmetic progressions.
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Functions on Display
To mathematicians, the term “function” has a specific meaning. It’s a rule that assigns a fixed output for a given input; in effect, a formula. Among the most familiar functions are the sine and cosine functions of trigonometry. The Wolfram Functions Site offers a huge functions database, providing information about and visualizations of more then […]
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From Number Puzzles to Automata
A high school student plays with numbers and does an award-winning project elucidating the link between automata and divisibility.
