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Macworld
December 2001
Charles Seiter |
Mathematical Explorer Anyone who's bought and enjoyed a copy of Scientific American is likely to spend hours fascinated by Mathematical Explorer, a new educational CD-ROM...   |
Science News
November 24, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Canary Songs Simply by manipulating air pressure and muscle tension in its vocal organ, or syrinx, a canary can generate an amazingly varied repertoire of trills, warbles, and other melodic syllables. This insight comes from a novel mathematical model of sound production in songbirds... |
Science News
November 3, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Absolutely Abnormal Identifying the normal (or even the abnormal) in mathematics can pose serious difficulties... |
Science News
October 27, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Tolstoy's Calculus Tolstoy's references to mathematics in War and Peace show a familiarity with the work of Pierre-Simon Laplace... |
Science News
October 20, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Firm Data To determine the firm size distribution in the United States, Robert L. Axtell turned to data gathered in 1997 by the U.S. Census Bureau. He discovered that, for each 10-fold increase in size, the number of firms was roughly one-tenth as large -- an example of a scaling of power law... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2001
Douglas R. Knox |
SAS Institute's StatView 5.0 The SAS Institute's StatView 5.0 statistical package is an outstanding statistical data analysis program that is appropriate for all levels of statisticians, from students beginning their study of statistics through professionals engaged in serious advanced analyses... |
Science News
October 6, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Spotting Ladybugs A simple mathematical model that generates patterns similar to those found on ladybugs. |
Science News
October 6, 2001 |
Knot Views Website on mathematical knots. |
Science News
September 22, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Sand Drawings and Mirror Curves To accompany the telling of a story or recounting of a fable, men of the Chokwe people in south-central Africa traditionally made sand drawings, called sona, to illustrate the tale. These highly stylized geometric illustrations also served as memory aids... |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2001
Joan Bookbinder-Kessler |
Theorist Interactive's Livemath Maker 3.0.1 LiveMath Maker 3.0.1 is an exciting new addition to a family of software products designed to enhance mathematics education from pre-algebra through differential equations... |
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