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Fast Company
December 2004
Sylvia Nasar |
What Makes Beautiful Minds Some forms of creative genius seem unfathomable. But as the author of A Beautiful Mind tells us, that doesn't mean we can't learn from them. The book's subject, John Nash, won a Nobel Prize in 1994 for his noncooperative games theory.   |
Bio-IT World
November 19, 2004
John Russell |
Sourcebook: Matters of Interpretation Michael O'Connell talks about trends in microarray and mass-spec data analysis and Insightful Corp.'s recent deal with visualization specialist Spotfire. |
Bio-IT World
November 19, 2004
Kevin Davies |
The Book on Bioinformatics Research director David Mount talks about his new book "Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis," sequence analysis, and teaching bioinformatics |
Science News
November 13, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
The Iced Foot Effect Statisticians analyze data on NFL field goal kickers to find out whether making an opposing sportsman wait before following through with a play, (called icing) really works... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
November 6, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Football's Overtime Bias A mathemetician uses a probability model and data from the 2002 NFL regular season to compare the current overtime rule with the suggested first-to-six rule... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
October 30, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Squaring Circles Laczkovich proved that "squaring the circle" is possible, provided that the pieces have the right form. The proof applies not only to circles but also to nearly any plane figure with a mathematically well-behaved boundary... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
October 23, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Young Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss, at 10-years old, discovered a simple method for summing an arithmetic sequence (or arithmetic progression)... Puzzle of the Week... |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
John R. Quain |
Encryption Skeleton Key? Could a claimed math proof unlock secrets? |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2004
Jeff Hwang |
Will the Red Sox Make the World Series? A study in probability is illustrative in sports and in investing. Forecasting and calculating probabilities is essential to calculating expected values and thus stock valuation. |
Science News
October 16, 2004 |
A Catalog of Random Bits A computer scientist and collaborators have identified a variety of flaws in computer-based random number generators, invented more robust versions of existing generators, and developed a suite of rigorous tests to check for randomness... Puzzle of the Week... |
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