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Science News
June 17, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Folding Perfect Thirds Origami provides a hands-on way to explore mathematical concepts.   |
Science News
June 10, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Dropping Lowest Scores Determining which scores to drop when computing a final grade that is to a student's greatest advantage can be tricky. Here are some examples. |
Science News
June 3, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Missing Flowers The number of petals that a flower has isn't always a Fibonacci number. You have to be careful when you're building mathematical models of natural phenomena. |
Science News
May 27, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
A Straw and Two Glasses Using a straw to transfer water between two glasses raises intriguing mathematical questions. |
Science News
May 6, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Quilting Pi The intriguing, enigmatic number pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, conjures up vivid patterns that artist and mathematician John Sims translates to quilts. |
Science News
April 29, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Constructing Difference Engines The Science Museum in London built a complete, working version of Babbage's second difference engine that could hold seven number of 31 decimals each, allowing it to tabulate seventh-degree polynomials to high precision. |
Science News
April 22, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Papercraft Polyhedra Drawing and constructing polyhedra is a pastime that goes back to the Renaissance and perhaps even earlier times |
Science News
April 8, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Shadows of the Fourth Dimension Tony Robbin creates complex works filled with interwoven patterns and ambiguous figures to give the illusion of seeing more than one object in the same place at the same time. |
Science News
April 1, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Euclid's Fourteenth Book When a famous mathematician has something new to say, the whole world pays attention. |
Science News
March 25, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
A Gathering for Gardner Mathematicians, computer scientists, artists, writers, engineers, magicians, inventors, puzzlists and more gathered to honor Martin Gardner, whose writings in recreational mathematics and magic over many years had exerted such a profound influence over their lives. |
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