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Symmetry has been recognised in art for millennia as a form of visual harmony and balance, but it has now become one of the great unifying principles of mathematics.
Western Morning News published Number Ninja show adds up to a good night out
Direct from BBC Radio 4's Infinite Monkey Cage, stand-up mathematician Matt Parker takes an hilarious tour through the world of numbers on Tuesday at studio@QT in the Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple.
Government Offers Weak Defense of Bogus Study that Fueled Chinatown Bus Closings
A 30-year-old man wearing only his underwear was lying in a fetal position in the middle of a highway in Weirwood, Virginia, when a passenger bus struck and killed him.
Obscure University of New Hampshire math professor takes major step toward elusive proof
A soft-spoken, virtually unknown mathematician from the University of New Hampshire has found himself overnight a minor celebrity, flooded with requests to give talks at top universities as his work is debated and celebrated online by leaders in his field.
Gauss images of hyperbolic cusps with convex polyhedral boundary
We prove that a 3--dimensional hyperbolic cusp with convex polyhedral boundary is uniquely determined by its Gauss image.
3 things to know and remember when preparing for the SAT mathematics section
Ah, mathematics. That single word, mathematics, can divide - and strike fear in the hearts of - individuals like no other term.
5 Scholarships for In-Demand College Majors
Selecting a college major can be one of the easiest or most difficult decisions a person can make in their lifetime.
Roll over Einstein: meet Weinstein
What are we to make of a man who left academia more than two decades ago but claims to have solved some of the most intractable problems in physics? Most of the universe is missing, for example.
Eric Weinstein might just have found the answer to physics' problems | Marcus du Sautoy
A physicist claims to have formulated a mathematical theory that explains why the universe works the way it does - and it feels like 'the answer' Eric Weinstein's theory is the first major challenge to the validity of Albert Einstein's Field Equations.
Last week, Yitang "Tom" Zhang, a popular math professor at the University of New Hampshire, stunned the world of pure mathematics when he announced that he had proven the "bounded gaps" conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers - a crucial milestone on the way to the even more elusive twin primes conjecture, and a major achievement in ... (more)
Teachable Moments: Weather forecasting experiment leads to Lorenz's chaos theory
In late December 1972, Edward Norton Lorenz, meteorology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered a research paper reflecting on the sensitive dependence of initial conditions and their widely varying impact on later events.
Optics: Statistics Light the Way
Millions of years of evolution have molded our eyes into highly sensitive optical detectors, surpassing even many human-made devices.
Jenkins inducted into JSU Teacher Hall of Fame
Philip Jenkins, a seventh and eighth grade mathematics teacher at B.B. Comer Memorial High School, assists Comer students with their worm farm project.
Library of Economics and Liberty
The Dirty Laundry of Instrumental Variables, by Bryan Caplan
Are instrumental variables estimates really superior to ordinary least squares ? Most high-status empirical economists seem to think so.
FIFA 13 Ultimate Team: Bundesliga Team of the Season Cards Revealed
Just days before the 2012-13 Champions League final on May 25, FIFA 13 's Ultimate Team mode is ready to reveal its Bundesliga Team of the Season cards.
Study challenges notion that umpires call more strikes for pitchers of same race
The study, a collaboration between researchers at U-M and the universities of Illinois and Florida, looks deeper into the controversial argument over whether MLB umpires discriminate by calling more strikes for pitchers of the same race.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Updated January 2013
Guidelines for implementing the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education that are developed by the Instructional Quality Commission.
Researchers Explain Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares: The Culprit Is Turbulence
When a solar flare filled with charged particles erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics.
Science, Industry and Business
Soft Matter Offers New Ways to Study How Materials Arrange
A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.
It is rare, but not inconceivable, to encounter a tropical, underwater paradise in an art gallery in Baltimore.