Mathematics News

It describes the relationship between the sides of a right triangle on a flat plane: square the lengths of the short sides, a and b, add those together, and you get the square of the length of the long side, c.

Defending STEM Fair high school champion Yun Ha Seo, a senior at Tinian High School, dominated the science fair competition after being crowned the overall champion and official representative of the Commonwealth to the upcoming Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

On-air challenge: A series of paired words will be provided. For each pair, think of a third word that can follow the first one and precede the second to complete a familiar two-word phrase.

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods , Vol. 7, No. 1. , pp. 13-26, doi:10.1080/03610927808827599 To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.

Unlike the other diarist that has some respect for you, I don't. The only thing I have to say to you is, go fuck yourself.

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans , Vol. 27, No. 1-4. , pp. 679-706, doi:10.1016/s0377-0265 00038-9 Cartesian coordinates are used to solve the nonlinear shallow-water equations on the sphere.

I wrote last year that a bill making it easier for adopted children and their birth parents to have each other's contact information was dead on arrival in the Utah House because Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka opposed it.

Along with the temperatures, new vehicle sales in Saskatchewan plunged 11 per cent in January to 3,321 cars and trucks sold, compared with about 3,700 for the same period in 2013, according to Statistics Canada data compiled by Sask Trends Monitor.

Almost 400 elementary mathaletes from 14 Northshore schools will test their math skills in number sense, algebra, probability and statistics and potpourri at the annual Northshore Elementary Math Olympiad competition March 15. Participating Northshore elementary schools are Bear Creek, Canyon Creek, Cottage Lake, East Ridge, Fernwood, Frank Love, ... (more)

From January to March, the academic calendar is dominated by the admissions process.

Friday was National Pi Day, which celebrates the mathematical figure pi, or 3.14.

Happy Pi Day ! Geeks all over the world celebrate the mathematical constant 3.14 on 3/14 or today, March 14. " Pi " is represented by the Greek letter " ", the symbol Mathematicians commonly use to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

Melissa Bellino, left, cuts one of many pies and cakes celebrating Pi Day in her statistics class at Canon-McMillan High School Friday.

You may not know this but March 14 is National Pi Day, which celebrates the mathematical constant - approximately 3.14159 - so crucial to trigonometry and geometry.

Happy Pi Day! Every year on March 14, we celebrate that numerical oddball and mathematical constant otherwise known as 3.14159... Except, we don't, because unless you run in very specific circles, you probably haven't utilized pi since your tenth-grade trigonometry final.

The number pi = 3.14159265358979323846... is arguably the only mathematical topic from very early history that is still being researched today.

National Pi Day honors the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The date, March 14, matches the first three numbers of pi: 3.14.

March 14 is a great day to be a geek. That's because it's Pi Day , the one day of the year when it's super cool to be a math wiz.

The decimal expansion of . Archimedes observed that polygons drawn inside and outside a circle would have perimeters somewhat close to the circumference of the circle.

There are holidays like Mother's Day, Earth Day, Thanksgiving Day. Even a Talk-Like-Shakespeare Day .