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Mathematician Reveals 'Equals' Has More Than One Meaning In Math - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days ago"It turns out that mathematicians actually can't agree on the definition of what makes two things equal, and that could cause some headaches for computer programs that are ...
Stiles Points: Introducing the 2024 NBA Draft All-Juice Team
Sports Illustrated· 2 hours agoThe kind of player who shows up to work with his lunch pail and hard hat, you never wonder if they...
Mathematicians Accidentally Found a New Way to Represent Pi
MSN News· 3 days agoOur favorite mathematical constant, pi (π), describing the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter, has taken on new meaning. The new representation was borne out of the twists ...
9 of the Most Beautiful Equations in Mathematics
Scientific American· 5 days agoTo mathematicians, equations are art. As is the case with artistic beauty, mathematical beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One mathematician may prize...
How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dams Safer
Scientific American· 1 hour agoAt 11:03 A.M. on April 17, 2018, metal fatigue caused a fan blade to break off inside the left engine of Southwest flight 1380 en route from New York to Dallas at 32,000 feet. The number of ...
In Praise of Bragging
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoThe 17th-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal similarly observed in his “Pensées”: “If you want people to think well of you, do not speak...
New Understandings of Food, Fat, Fitness and Evolution
Scientific American· 1 hour agoScientific American’s senior evolution editor Kate Wong explains what we evolved to eat (and ate to evolve), at the beginning of our special report on health and appetite. A new class of drugs ...
Say Oui to 92 Classic French Male Names for Your Petit Homme
LOVE to KNOW via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoBaptiste (bah-teest) - Baptist, to dip; usually combined with Jean like famous biologist...
In the Hamptons, Democrats Trade Insults Before New York Primaries
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 17 hours ago(Bloomberg) -- On paper, New York’s 1st Congressional district reads like a winner for Democrats....
How a Boston Physician Conquered the Thriller Genre
New York Times· 3 days agoAfter getting her start by self-publishing, Freida McFadden is now the fastest selling thriller writer in the United States. When Freida McFadden...
