Physics and Numbers
Three years ago, Martin Gardner’s good friend, MAA Editorial Director Don Albers interviewed him at length about his childhood, the roots of his fascination with math, and about his career. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting the interview in chunks, because his story is absolutely fascinating.
Although school has been back for less than a month, it is likely that many children are already experiencing frustration and confusion in math class. Research at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada could change the way we view math difficulties and how we assist children who face those problems.
There is more subtlety to the evolution/creationism debate than many of the loudest voices tend to employ.
Continuing his exploration of space and time, Shahn Majid argues that science and religion have entirely opposite methodologies and illustrates his views in the context of fundamental physics.
A team of scientists has forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing phenomenon in fundamental physics: the Kondo effect. The findings are reported online today in the scientific journal Nature Physics.
Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break down in sunlight, perhaps reducing their possible environmental dangers.
When a baseball team loses, the manager is often fired. But does the manager have any real impact on whether the team wins or loses?
In this post, I present some new data to determine whether and when the manager's choices about the lineup affect the team's chances of winning.
LHC’s proton beams are still waiting to collide, but scientific community already talks about building new generation of particle accelerators.
Now that I have a general theory for all 2 variable quadratic
Diophantine equations it's worth coming back to note again the weird
connection I found between certain Pythagorean Triplets and Pell's
Equation in the form
x^2 - Dy^2 = 1
when D-1 is a perfect square. For instance for D=2, I have that for
every solution of Pell's Equation you have a Pythagorean Triplet!
Scientists from the Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute (EARI) announced that the first test of the Giant Animal Smasher (GAS) will begin on December 19, 2008, the 41st anniversary of the premiere of Dr. Dolittle.
Wednesday, September 10th, it was announced that Stephen Hawking was willing to bet $100 that the LHC would not find the anticipated Higgs Boson particle. Knowing his track record, I couldn't resist stepping to the plate...
There appears to be an upper limit to how big the universe’s most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist.
Meaning to life would be simple…
It is a chase, after creating this artifical universe in our universe. We have a chance to recreate the big bang our self’s and watch it in front of ours eyes.
Data from satellites and observatories around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed almost directly at Earth.
Russian academicians Vladimir Arnold and Ludwig Faddeev received a deserved prize – Shaw Prize 2008, also known as “Asia Nobel Prize”. The prize went to outstanding Russian mathematicians “for their widespread and influential contributions to Mathematical Physics”.
An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world's most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.
