Mathematics News

In his superlative The Improbability Principle , David J. Hand makes sense of bizarre patterns in Bible codes, lightning strikes and even drug trials PEOPLE thought it was a fix when the Bulgarian lottery announced the same six winning numbers on two consecutive draws in 2009.

RUSTON - Bernd Schroeder, academic director and Edmondson/Crump Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Louisiana Tech University, has been selected to receive the 2014 Mathematical Association of America Louisiana/Mississippi Section Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Hour 2: When an unlikely event happens, the first thing we ask is, "What are the odds of that?" The truth is: Better than you think.

As director of continuing education at Johnston Community College, McCormick recruits students for training programs like front-line industry production, food service and real-estate sales.

"The New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge NJ ASK For Grades 3 and 4 Technical Report Dated March 2004 produced and readily accessible by the New Jersey Department of Education is important to all the parents students and private tutors at all of the three Math Genie abacus math for kids schools in New Jersey in the United States of ... (more)

"The New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge NJ ASK For Grades 3 and 4 Technical Report Dated March 2004 produced and readily accessible by the New Jersey Department of Education is important to all the parents students and private tutors at all of the three Math Genie abacus math for kids schools in New Jersey in the United States of ... (more)

A LEADING statistician says this defies all logic. It is totally unthinkable that 95 per cent of people would want this to happen.

"Why most published research findings are false" is not, as the title of an academic paper, likely to win friends in the ivory tower.

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.