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Mathematicians Are Suddenly Rethinking the Equal Sign
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat means taking every. Single. Step. Back to Math Equality In his paper, Buzzard uses ...
What Does = Mean? Mathematicians Aren't Sure – And That Could Be A Problem
IFLScience· 1 day agoEveryone knows what “equals” means; it’s like, the first thing you learn in preschool math! Except that, just like 1 + 1, the concept of mathematical equality is one that ...
#IamPhysSci - Jennifer Pi, Ph.D., Mathematics | UCI
UC Irvine Today· 3 days agoJennifer Pi likes to play with toys – just not the kinds of toys you might first imagine. As a theoretical mathematician and Ph.D. student working under...
Love Spreadsheets? Meet Their Inventor
Investor's Business Daily· 2 days ago"It's where I learned more about programming and discovered I was really good at it," he said. Stay Flexible Bricklin entered MIT as a math major. But...
Howzat! Cambridge University engineers recreate Venn’s historic bowling machine
Press Association News via AOL· 5 days agoA wooden contraption that bowled out an Australian international cricketer four times in 1909 – and...
AI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’
Scientific American· 6 days agoMathematics is traditionally a solitary science. In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem. Terence Tao of the...
The Valley Reporter - Harwood awards scholarships
The Valley Reporter· 7 hours agoDascomb P. Rowe ScholarshipL Given by the Waterbury High School Alumni Association, this scholarship is a memorial to Dascomb Rowe, a principal, teacher,...
Eliminating diversity programs at colleges and universities will have lasting effects
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 days agoNew legislation in states like Texas and Florida have banned diversity programs. In other states,...
What Lumens, Lux, and Other Lighting Gear Terms Mean
Wired News· 1 day agoPlanning your lighting for a photo or video shoot can be complicated, and the terminology used to measure light in lighting equipment can make things...
When slide rules ruled; sweat the small print
Berkshire Eagle· 3 days agoThe slide rule attracted my interest because I’d formed the impression that it was a newfangled device capable of solving math problems practically...