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Magazine articles on mathematics.
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Science News
October 9, 2004
Ivars Peterson
Randomness, Risk, and Financial Markets Approximate entropy, a novel measure used to determine the irregularity of a sequence of numbers, can be applied to stock market performance... Puzzle of the Week... mark for My Articles 13 similar articles
Technology Research News
October 6, 2004
Eric Smalley
Quantum math models speech Researchers at King's College London and Phonologica Ltd. are using mathematical tools from quantum physics that could lead to improved telecommunications, speech recognition and speech synthesis technologies. mark for My Articles 74 similar articles
Technology Research News
October 6, 2004
Kimberly Patch
Page layout drives Web search A system that analyzes content at the level of blocks of information on a page, rather than the coarser page-level, could eventually lead to more accurate search engines. The technique could be ready for commercial use in a general search engine within two years. mark for My Articles 17 similar articles
Science News
September 4, 2004
A Lewis Carroll Scrapbook An scrapbook kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford, is now available online, offering a timeline of Dodgson's life and other supporting materials. mark for My Articles 2 similar articles
Science News
August 28, 2004
Ivars Peterson
More Progressive Primes In July, Markus Frind, Paul Jobling, and Paul Underwood announced that they had discovered the first sequence consisting of 23 prime numbers in arithmetic progression. This surpasses the previous record of 22 primes in arithmetic progression, set in 1993. mark for My Articles 23 similar articles
Science News
August 21, 2004
Ivars Peterson
Floating Bodies Archimedes' ancient facination inspired a mathematician from the University of Pennsylvania to compute all possible floating positions (both stable and unstable) of a paraboloid for all possible shapes and densities... Puzzle of the Week... mark for My Articles 5 similar articles
Science News
August 14, 2004
Women in Mathematics From Maria Gaetana Agnesi to Lai-Sang Young, these Web pages provide biographies of prominent women in mathematics. mark for My Articles 19 similar articles
Science News
July 24, 2004
Ivars Peterson
Math Olympiad in Athens This year, as Athens prepared for the latest edition of the Olympic Games, the Hellenic Mathematical Society hosted the 45th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). mark for My Articles 29 similar articles
Science News
July 17, 2004
Ivars Peterson
Waring Experiments The different ways of expressing whole numbers as sums of parts has long fascinated both professional and amateur mathematicians. mark for My Articles 20 similar articles
Bio-IT World
July 14, 2004
Bill Van Etten
R Is Ready to Rumble This BioTeam consultant shares some lessons learned after using several R packages, which stand between Excel and commercial data analysis packages, for microarray analysis. mark for My Articles 149 similar articles
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