Friday math movie: Carlo Ratti Architecture that senses and responds
Updated: 2012-02-29 18:45:24
This video shows how we can improve our lives using sensing data.
Friday math movie: Vi Hart Visual Multiplication and 48/2(9+3)
Updated: 2012-02-29 18:45:24This short video explores an alternate way to do multiplication.useR! 2012 Early Registration Ending Tomorrow!
Updated: 2012-02-28 19:53:15The early registration deadline for useR! 2012 is tomorrow! Visit the Online Registration Website. The fees for registration increase March 1st.Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman – Inspired by Math #3
Updated: 2012-02-25 01:34:11Jason Rosenhouse is Associate Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University and author of The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser. Laura Taalman is Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University and co-founder of Brainfreeze Puzzles. She is the the author of Integrated Calculus and co-author of three books [...]Announcing the Mathematica Summer Camp 2012
Updated: 2012-02-18 01:57:18
Are you looking for a great way to spend your summer? We are happy to announce the Mathematica Summer Camp 2012! Held at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, students will have the opportunity to learn Mathematica’s language, apply their skills in other disciplines, and program their very own Wolfram Demonstrations! ...A preview of interactive Mathematica documents on iPad
Updated: 2012-02-17 17:34:42#leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } The Wolfram blog has just published an article previewing the .cdf player on iPad. I’ve discussed .cdf technology several times before (see Interactive Slinky Thing and Interactive Mathematics in the Web Browser for example) and it forms the basis of the superb Wolfram Demonstrations Project. In a nutshell, it is trivially easy to write interactive mathematical applets [...]A Preview of CDF on iPad
Updated: 2012-02-17 17:17:16For 22 years, Wolfram Research has been developing technology to allow subject matter experts to bring their ideas and documents to life with interactivity. This week, as part of his keynote at the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, Theodore Gray, Co-founder of Wolfram Research and Founder of Touch ...William Cook – Inspired by Math #2
Updated: 2012-02-17 16:35:16
Episode 2 of "Inspired by Math" is an interview with William Cook, author of "In Pursuit of the Travelings Salesman." William Cook is the Chandler Family Chair and Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. More information about his book is at the Princeton University Press site. More information about the [...]Matt Lane – Math Goes Pop!
Updated: 2012-02-17 14:24:34I received this email yesterday from Matt Lane of Math Goes Pop! I really like what Matt is up to, exposing how Math is an integral (pun intended) part of popular culture. Matt is one of those Math geeks who is also an outstanding communicator - and he likes my blog - so, with his [...]Now this is an optimization protocol I can get behind
Updated: 2012-02-16 04:51:22The NY Times has an article about Canadian researchers who are trying to develop exercise protocols that maximize health benefits while minimizing the time requirement. They have developed a high intensity interval training technique that takes 20 mins twice a week, and only half of that time is spent doing the high intensity work. And [...]Keith Devlin – Inspired by Math #1
Updated: 2012-02-14 19:06:24
Today, on St. Valentine's Day, I'm launching a series of podcasts which I call "Inspired by Math." In these podcasts I explore the two-part burning question - How is that some people are inspired by Math and how can we bottle that? Keith Devlin gave me the gift of 32 minutes of his insights. More [...]Post about a Post about a Post (On Likelihoods and Deterministic Models)
Updated: 2012-02-13 22:36:28I asked Andrew Gelman to comment on my post about Where Do Likelihoods Come From? He had some interesting links to papers that he's written which are relevant, but there are also a lot of good comments over on his blog (he's got a good critical mass of readers). In particular, Keith links to this [...]Digital art by Eric Hayes
Updated: 2012-02-09 18:49:06I received this email yesterday from Eric Hayes. I like what he's up to so I thought I'd give him a plug. Good luck, Eric. My name is Eric Hayes, and I am a programmer and digital artist. I have written a software application called "Commander Crayon" which translates the elegance of mathematics to the [...]Plotting “traveling salesman problem” routes on an iPhone
Updated: 2012-02-07 16:45:45Here's something quite remarkable, from the Princeton University Press Blog: Twenty-four years ago a 2,392-city example of the TSP was solved in a 23-hour run on a super computer to set a new world record. This same problem now solves in 7 minutes on an iPhone 4 thanks to a free app: Concorde TSP Solver! [...]Disagreement on operator precedence for 2^3^4
Updated: 2012-02-06 09:57:29#leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } My attention was recently drawn to a Google+ post by JerWei Zhang where he evaluates 2^3^4 in various packages and notes that they don’t always agree. For example, in MATLAB 2010a we have 2^3^4 = 4096 which is equivalent to putting (2^3)^4 whereas Mathematica 8 gives 2^3^4 = 2417851639229258349412352 which is the same as putting [...]A month of math software – January 2012
Updated: 2012-02-04 17:45:45#leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Welcome to the first MMS of 2012. This series has been going for a year now and I’m very pleased to say that it’s become quite popular. In the beginning I had to trawl the web for all of the news I featured here but a sizeable percentage of it gets sent to me these [...]