Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span. That’s a much broader view of the tric… Continue reading Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works
The languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people …read more Continue reading Native Alaskan Language Reshapes Mathematics
The New York Times added a new daily puzzle game to its library in the form of Digits. GameSpot reports: This collection of math conundrums tasks you with reaching a designated number by using six numbers that you’re free to multiply, divide, subtract,… Continue reading NYT Debuts Digits, the Math Version of Wordle
One of mathematics’ most intriguing visual mysteries has finally been solved — thanks to a hobbyist in England. From a report: The conundrum: is there a shape that can be arranged in a tile formation, interlocking with itself ad infinitum, without the… Continue reading Mathematicians Invent New ‘Einstein’ Shape
IHTFISP shares a report from Phys.Org: A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not repeat itself when ti… Continue reading A Geometric Shape That Does Not Repeat Itself When Tiled
[Rolinychupetin] insists that his recent video is not a lecture but actually a “recitation” about Bode plots. That may be, but it is still worth a watch if you want …read more Continue reading Bode Plot Un-Lecture
Whether you’re a fan of compelling Tool songs, or merely appreciate mathematical beauty, you might be into the spirals defined by the Fibonacci sequence. [RuddK5] used the Fibonacci curve as …read more Continue reading Organic Fibonacci Clock Is All About The Spiral
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Wednesday announce plans to force school pupils in England to study math up to the age of 18, according to a Downing Street briefing. The initiative attempts to tackle innumeracy and better equip young people for… Continue reading UK PM Rishi Sunak To Propose Compulsory Math To Students Up To 18
Like a visit from an old friend, it’s Donald Knuth’s annual Christmas tree lecture for 2022. “Because of the pandemic, it’s been three years since Knuth has been able to honor this tradition,” notes The New Stack:
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of th… Continue reading Donald Knuth’s 2022 ‘Christmas Tree’ Lecture Is About Trees
“Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree,” reports Quanta magazine, saying the situation “reveals the problematic incentive structure of academia.”
Particle physicists use some … Continue reading Computer Program For Particle Physics At Risk of Obsolescence