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Science News
August 25, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Mozart's Melody Machine A mathematical game that composes a practically infinite number of Mozartean minuets from random-number generation...   |
Science News
July 21, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Art of Pursuit The simple mathematical concept of a pursuit curve can serve as the starting point for creating wonderfully intricate artistic designs... |
Macworld
July 2001
Charles Seiter |
CalculationCenter A gentle introduction to the power of Mathematica... |
Science News
July 14, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Pursuing Pursuit Curves A pursuit curve is the path an object takes when chasing another object. Such a path might result from a fox pursuing a rabbit or a missile seeking a moving target. Plotting pursuit curves can produce fascinating patterns... |
Science News
July 7, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Acoustic Residues There's a surprising mathematical ingredient in the sound of many performing artists and recording stars. It manifests itself in the form of clusters of panels hanging on the walls of recording studios, concert halls, nightclubs, and other venues... |
Science News
June 30, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Random Home Runs In the current issue of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, economist Paul M. Sommers of Middlebury College, Vermont, addresses the question of whether top home-run sluggers knock out homers at random or whether they hit in streaks... |
Science News
June 16, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Bubbles and Math Olympiads Predicting the geometric shapes of soap bubble clusters can lead to surprisingly difficult mathematical problems... |
Science News
June 9, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Mobius Accordion Artist Susan Happersett of Jersey City, N.J., has come up with a novel twist on the venerable Mobius strip: a playful, eye-catching creation she describes as a Mobius accordion... |
Science News
June 2, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Prime Twins Although most mathematicians believe that there are infinitely many twin primes, no one has yet proved this conjecture to be true. Indeed, the twin prime conjecture is considered one of the major unsolved problems in number theory... |
Science News
May 19, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Cosmic Numerology Imbued with the same conviction of a natural order that drove Pythagoras and his followers to search for an underlying numerical harmony, Johannes Kepler maintained that the physical universe was laid out according to a mathematical design... |
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