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Magazine articles on mathematics.
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Science News
March 29, 2003
Ivars Peterson
Crediting Basketball's Three-Pointers The adoption of the three-point field goal in basketball changed the game. Now, statistician Thomas P. Ryan asks how best to credit three-point field goals so that the resulting numbers say something useful about how a game was played. mark for My Articles 5 similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2003
Theodore Modis
Business: A scientific approach to managing competition The Volterra-Lotka predator-prey model has opened the way to effectively managing competition in the marketplace. A set of elementary marketing actions has emerged that provide guidance when searching for a commercial image or an effective advertising message. mark for My Articles 2 similar articles
Science News
March 15, 2003
Ivars Peterson
Solving Yahtzee Phil Woodward of Pfizer Global Research and Development in England has solved the game of Yahtzee, computing all of the more than 1 trillion possible outcomes and working out optimal playing strategies. His results appear in the current issue of Chance. mark for My Articles 34 similar articles
Science News
March 8, 2003
Ivars Peterson
Contra Dances, Matrices, and Groups The music for contra dancing is highly structured, and the dancing itself is equally structured. Here's a look at the mathematics of contra dancing. mark for My Articles 41 similar articles
Science News
March 1, 2003
Ivars Peterson
Cracking Fermat Numbers Fermat numbers have what mathematicians sometimes describe as a "beautiful mathematical form," involving powers of 2. They were of interest 400 years ago and are now the subject of a wide-ranging worldwide computer search. mark for My Articles 21 similar articles
Science News
February 22, 2003
Ivars Peterson
The Tangled Task of Distinguishing Knots Unlike a knotted piece of rope, a mathematical knot has no free ends. In this context, a knot is a one-dimensional curve that winds through itself in three-dimensional space, finally catching its tail to form a closed loop. mark for My Articles 23 similar articles
Science News
February 8, 2003
Ivars Peterson
A Graceful Sculpture's Showy Snow Crash Brent Collins has spent more than two decades carving gracefully curvaceous sculptures out of wood. Collins is not a mathematician, yet his intuition and aesthetic sense have led him to explore patterns and shapes that have an underlying mathematical logic. mark for My Articles 14 similar articles
Science News
February 1, 2003
Ivars Peterson
Sliding-Coin Puzzles Geometric arrangements of coins can serve as the basis for all sorts of puzzles. mark for My Articles
Science News
January 25, 2003
Ivars Peterson
Chemical Dissections In recreational mathematics, a geometric dissection involves cutting a geometric figure into pieces that you can reassemble into another figure. Now, chemists have gotten into the dissection game, as a novel strategy for getting small objects to assemble themselves into different regular forms. mark for My Articles 8 similar articles
Science News
January 18, 2003
Ivars Peterson
A Perfect Collaboration Together, Euclid of Alexandria (c325-c265 BC) and Leonard Euler (1707-1783), born in Switzerland and at various times resident in St. Petersburg and Berlin, collaborated on proving an interesting result in number theory -- without the benefit of e-mail or time travel. mark for My Articles 20 similar articles
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