Kids Have ‘Math Anxiety’ Thanks to Parents and Teachers, Report Finds
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51st Mersenne Prime Discovered
via The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), comes word of the discovery of the 51st Mersenne Prime: 282,589,933-1. Discovered by GIMPS software, and executed by GIMPS user Patrick Laroche on a volunteered computer. Simply Outstanding.
Creating Black Holes: Division By Zero In Practice
Dividing by zero — the fundamental no-can-do of arithmetic. It is somewhat surrounded by mystery, and is a constant source for internet humor, whether it involves exploding microcontrollers, the collapse of the universe, or crashing your own world by having Siri tell you that you have no friends.
It’s also one of the few things gcc will warn you about by default, which caused a rather vivid discussion with interesting insights when I recently wrote about compiler warnings. And if you’re running a modern operating system, it might even send you a signal that something’s gone wrong and let you …read more
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XKCD, Rolle’s Theorem
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XKCD, Complex Numbers
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Quantum Recommendation Problem Obsoleted
via Flickr, Ewin Tang is a University of Texas, Austin, Dean’s Honored Graduate in Computer Science. He is receiving an Honors Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics, with the Pure Mathematics option.
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Wolfram Alpha Electronic Tips
Electronics takes a lot of math. Once you’ve mastered all the algebra and calculus, though, it is sometimes a drag to go through the motions. It also can be error-prone. But these days, you have Wolfram Alpha which will do all the work for you and very easily. I use it all the time when I’m too lazy to solve an equation or do an integral by hand. But did you know it actually has some features specifically for electronics?
If you want to do a lot with electronics — or nearly any technical field — you are going to …read more
XKCD, OEIS Submissions
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Honey Bees Are the First Insect Known to Grasp the Concept of Zero
By giving bees visual math quizzes, scientists discovered that these insects know a null set when they see one. Continue reading Honey Bees Are the First Insect Known to Grasp the Concept of Zero
Richard Feynman: A Life Of Curiosity And Science
It was World War II and scientists belonging to the Manhattan Project worked on calculations for the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, in one of the buildings, future Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was cracking the combination lock on a safe because doing so intrigued him. That’s as good a broad summary of Feynman as any: scientific integrity with curiosity driving both his work and his fun.
If you’ve heard of him in passing it may be because of his involvement on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster commission or maybe you’ve learned something from one of his many lectures preserved …read more
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