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Science News
July 10, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Pythagoras Plays Ball Baseball, like engineering and science, is a game of inches and feet.   |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2004
Charly Travers |
Biotech's Full Monte When it comes to valuing biotech companies, the Monte Carlo simulation lets investors leave the guesswork behind and the random sampling to a computer. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Steve Lohr |
The New Geek The evolving breed of computationally minded yet broadly skilled workers holds the key to gains in productivity and economic growth. |
Science News
June 12, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Groups, Graphs, and Erdos Numbers Perhaps more than any other mathematician in modern times, Paul Erdos (1913-1996) epitomized the strength and breadth of mathematical collaboration. |
Science News
June 5, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Priming Upward The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) continues to unearth new Mersenne primes. |
Science News
May 29, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Playing Pig, Optimally The simple dice game known as Pig is surprisingly complex when you're trying to find an optimal strategy for playing it. |
Science News
May 22, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
A Measure of Beauty While mathematician George David Birkhoff is best known for his work on differential equations and dynamics, he also devised formulas for beauty. |
BusinessWeek
May 10, 2004
Andy Reinhardt |
Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers The Cambridge University mathematician laid the foundation for the invention of software. |
Science News
May 1, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Counting on Fibonacci Fibonacci numbers have all sorts of amazing properties and links to many different kinds of mathematics |
Science News
April 24, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Progressive Primes In one step toward elucidating certain primal mysteries, two mathematicians have now apparently proved that the population of primes contains an infinite collection of arithmetic progressions. |
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