#Math
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Was a Genius. Math Is Still Catching Up. | Quanta Magazine
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.
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This is a wonderful answer for this question - Art Of Mathematics
Home -> Solved problems -> e^pi or pi^e (mathrm{e}^{pi}>pi^{mathrm{e}};;;or;;;mathrm{e^{pi } < pi ^ { mathrm { e } }}) Solution Let's solve the
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Why Almost Everyone Gets the Monty Hall Probability Puzzle Wrong | Scientific American
How to finally wrap your mind around the uniquely counterintuitive Monty Hall dilemma
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How many times must you fold a paper to reach the Moon? - Big Think
Each time you fold a piece of paper, you double the paper's thickness. It doesn't take all that long to even reach the Moon.
Politics | Politics
'Educational Homicide': Zero Students Test Proficient in Math at 40 Percent of Baltimore High Schools
Let's begin with a question: When will Democrats wake up and realize that by lowering scholastic expectations, they hurting the very students they profess to want to help? Other than never, I mean.
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6 Famous Scientists and Inventors Who Struggled With Math
Some of the world's greatest scientists have struggled with math—just like the rest of us.
Politics | Woke Insanity
California Approves New Math Guidelines that Emphasize social justice
California's new math guidelines are based on a concept known as
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How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole - BBC Future
When a gang of gambling cheats sussed out how to beat the house, they inadvertently highlighted a loophole from a shuffled deck. It took a magician-turned-mathematician to reveal how.
Politics | Woke Insanity
Professor proposes ‘living mathematx’ which acknowledges that trees are sentient
Just like Latinx, there's now mathematx.
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How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits | Quanta Magazine
The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound…
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Scientists Fed the Fibonacci Sequence Into a Quantum Computer and Something Strange Happened
By shooting a laser pulse imitating the Fibonacci Sequence into qubits, physicists created a new phase of matter far better at maintaing a quantum state.
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For Some Maniacal Reason, Teachers Gave This Math Problem to 9-Year-Olds
And no one could solve it—not even the teachers. Can you figure out the answer?
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Paradox-free time travel is 'logically' possible, say physicists - Big Think
Grandfathers, take heart. You'll survive the paradox that's been gunning for you since the 1930s.
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How to understand Einstein's equation for general relativity - Big Think
Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.
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Einstein proved right by flying clocks around the world - Big Think
Time isn't the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
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How a circular slide rule works
How does a circular slide rule work? What if it "overflows" by rotating more than 360 degrees?
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Oregon Suspends Math, Reading Proficiency As Graduation Requirement
Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown (D), quietly signed a bill last month that dropped the requirement that high school students prove...
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So, Now Achieving Racial 'Equity' Requires the Dumbing Down of America's Kids?
The California Department of Education is suggesting - strongly suggesting - that schools eliminate advanced placement math classes, not because students weren't qualifying, but because AP math classes are, get this, "racist." Frank and Andy address this
Politics | Narrative
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Says Math, Showing Your Work, Correct Answers Are Racist
As Bill and Melinda Gates aggressively push for the vaccination of the entire world population against COVID, their non-profit organization
Politics | Leftists Are Insane
Oregon Educators: Making Math Students Show Their Work Is ‘White Supremacy’
The Oregon Department of Education is seeking to root out "white supremacy" in mathematics, which focuses on “getting the right answer.”
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'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem
You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an all-knowing wizard. The prophecy says that with these oracles’ help, you can learn the answers to unanswerable problems. But there’s a catc
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‘Ok math WHIZ’: William Shatner takes troll whining about how much HARDER it is for people today APART with simple math
Don't whine to William Shatner folks. Just don't do it.
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The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?
This is what my mom said to me when I told her about this little mathematical anomaly. And it is just that, an anomaly. After all, it defies basic logic. How could adding positive numbers equal not…
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How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
In less than 30 minutes, learn how to calculate which weekday any given date occurs on
Politics | Leftists Are Insane
Woke Math Aims to Teach Seattle Kids That ‘Western’ Math Is Racist
The framework for this new curriculum exposes just how absurd woke math will be.
History | History
Mind-boggling facts that sound fake, but are actually true
Some facts are so mind-boggling that they sound bogus. We did the digging to bring you all the wildest trivia no one believes could possibly be true.
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Mathematicians Solve '42' Problem With Planetary Supercomputer
Mathematicians have finally figured out the three cubed numbers that add up to 42. This has settled a problem that has been pondered for 65 years: namely, can each of the natural numbers below 100 be expressed as the sum of three cubes?
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Introduction to Quantum Programming - Towards Data Science
In depth walkthrough of quantum programming for beginners, building up from the mathematical foundations of qubits to how to run on a real quantum computer.
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Florida Governor Plans Rollback of Common Core
A sweeping executive order recently issued by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis aims to remove the “vestiges” of the ...
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A retired couple explains exactly how they used math skills and a lottery loophole to win $26 million in 9 years
Jerry and Marge Selbee won millions when they realized a loophole in a Michigan state lottery game that boosted their chances of winning.
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Meet The Four-Dimensional Numbers That Led to Modern Algebra
Strange, long-forgotten numbers called quaternions are undergoing a revival in computer graphics, math, and physics.
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Mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery
If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a single spaghetti stick and hold it at both ends. Now bend it until it breaks. How many fragments did you make? If the answer is three or more, pull out another stick
Science & Technology | Computer & Coding Tips
Be a Better Programmer with these 40 Mathematics Courses
But why we are so scared of Mathematics? Simply It’s because of our high school teaching systems and very less resource to learn from in our early ages. I saw many of friends didn’t understand and…
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What Knitting Can Teach You About Math
In this professor's class, there are no calculators. Instead, students learn advanced math by drawing pictures, playing with beach balls—and knitting
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Stonehenge secret: Did builders use Pythagoras' theorem 2,000 years before the philosopher lived? | Fox News
The famous ancient site at Stonehenge may have been built using Greek philosopher Pythagoras’ famous theorem two millennia before the mathematical equation was developed, experts say.
Health & Fitness | Health
The Math Behind the Classic Eye Chart Is Surprisingly Complex | Mental Floss
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
Science & Technology | Cosmic Research
Amateur mathematician cracks decades-old math problem
Aubrey de Grey took on the Hadwiger-Nelson problem, which has stumped mathematicians for more than 60 years
Family & Parenting | Kids
Math questions from the SATs that everyone gets wrong
The SAT doesn't just test how good you are at math, reading, and writing — it tests how good you are at taking the SAT. Can you solve these 8 common problems?
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This Couple Found a Math Error in the Lottery and Made $27 Million (Playing Over and Over for 55 Weeks)
Oh, I knew it would work, the wife said. I knew it would work.
Family & Parenting | Kids
Numworks graphing calculator is made for students raised on tech
Like textbooks, graphing calculators are still a necessary (and expensive) accessory for math and science students in high school and college. Sure, there are calculator apps for tablets and smartphones, but those are often banned for tests because they
Sports | Sports
A Mathematician Confronts March Madness - The New Yorker
Charles Bethea on this year’s March Madness N.C.A.A. basketball tournament, and the number theories that surround its brackets.
Psychology | Parenting and Kids
Teach Kids Philosophy, It Makes Them Better at Math
Not what to think, but how to think.
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A lot of people are having trouble with this math problem that requires some basic algebra
Nothing like a viral mind boggling math problem to make you feel like you should have paid better attention in high school…
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The Beauty of Laplace’s Equation, Mathematical Key to … Everything | WIRED
With these five symbols, Laplace read the universe.
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Something is off about one of Egypt's oldest and largest pyramids
The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was built for an Egyptian Pharaoh some 4,500 years ago, has been...
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Maths mystery solved after 40 years | Cosmos
A proof for graph theory's Kelmans-Seymour conjecture.
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Hate Math? These Mental Tricks Will Have You Multiplying Faster Than Einstein Ever Could! « Mind Hacks
2 + 2 = 4. That's about as much math as I can handle without a calculator on a daily basis. I literally hate doing math more than anything in life, mostly because I'm not good at it—and I hate doing things I'm not good at. So, when I come across a cool
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A New Hope for a Perplexing Mathematical Proof | WIRED
Three years ago, a solitary mathematician released an impenetrable proof of the famous abc conjecture. At a recent conference dedicated to the work, optimism mixed with bafflement.
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Hate Math? Then You NEED To See This Super-Simple Multiplication Trick.
Math suddenly isn't that hard!
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The Math Of Star Trek: How Trying To Solve Fermat's Last Theorem Revolutionized Mathematics - Forbes
People who, like Captain Picard, tried to solve Fermat's Last Theorem ended up revolutionizing math.
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For 40 years, computer scientists looked for a solution that doesn’t exist - The Boston Globe
MIT researchers demonstrate that it’s impossible to find a faster way of computing “edit distance.”
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John Nash, wife, 'A Beautiful Mind' inspiration, die in NJ
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie
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This Math Puzzle For 3rd Graders Is Harder Than It Looks. Can You Solve It?
Get ready for your brain to hurt. Again. A math teacher in Vietnam challenged his third-grade class (read: 8-year-old students) to solve this seemingly simple arithmetic problem. Apparently
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Can you solve the maths question for Singapore schoolkids that went viral?
Singapore usually comes top, or nearly top, of the international rankings in primary maths performance.
And when you read this question – you can see why. It’s an excellent logical puzzle, which will stump most adults.
Travel | Travel
A data genius computes the ultimate American road trip - The Washington Post
Who needs an atlas when you have an algorithm? Data tinkerer Randy Olson, who previously developed the optimal search path for finding the bespectacled main character of the "Where’s Waldo?" books, has used this same algorithm to compute the ultimate American road trip.
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Why Pi Matters - The New Yorker
Yes, Pi Day is again upon us. And not just any Pi Day. They’re calling this the Pi Day of the century: 3.14.15. Pi to five digits.
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Can You Solve 'The Hardest Logic Puzzle In The World'?
You're reading the first installment in a brand new puzzle series here at io9 – and what better way to kick things off than with the world's most difficult logic puzzle?
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Do We Live in a Multiverse? - The Nature of Reality
Our universe may not be alone. It could just be one of multiple realms making up a “multiverse.” In fact, there are a half-dozen or so... Read Full Post
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Missing square puzzle
The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes to help students reason about geometrical figures.
