Mathematics

21st Century Science: Legacy Math Education Isn't Going To Cut It

When it comes to discussion about public schools, the administation's education experts call the educators and students they claim to support 'dismal' on a regular basis. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 4:36pm

Predictive Modeling Shows How California Social Norms Damage Vaccination Rates

There is a reason some schools on the coast of California only have a 25 percent vaccination rate. Not 25 percent exemption, 25 percent vaccination. In California overall, exemptions rates rose by 25 percent just between 2008 and 2010 and that trend has b ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2014 - 1:55pm

Hey Erdos, We Solved Your Really Hard Math Problem, But No You Can't Check Our Work

Two computer scientists at at the University of Liverpool think they have successfully cracked the Erdős discrepancy problem (for a particular discrepancy bound C=2), an 80 year old maths puzzle proposed by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, who offer ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2014 - 6:00am

Who's Afraid Of Math? Maybe You Are, If You Have These Genetic Factors

Mathematicians are not created equally. Some people are just better at it, just like Usain Bolt runs faster than, well, everyone. But a new psychology paper says that some people may be at greater risk to fear math, not only because of negative experience ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2014 - 4:19pm

Backtesting And Pseudo-Mathematics: The Road To Financial Charlatanism

It's been a decades-long experiment to throw darts at a dartboard and see if it outperforms the picks of experts. Darts win and lose at the same rate as the average of experts. Some people clearly make money in financial markets but the old saying am ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 10:12am

Pure Tones For Healing- Harmonious Lissajous Knots- Pendulum Waves- Sloth Canon Music From Numbers

What ties together Lissajous knots, the harmonic polyrhythms of Theremin's rhythmicon, and a way of adding sounds to Pendulum waves? And do they have healing properties? And what is the musical maths of sloth canon number sequences?  ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 11 2014 - 6:35am

Better Statistics Insight Could Solve Missing Heritability Problem In Genome-Wide Association Studies

The modern world of Big Data increasingly requires knowledge of statistics and biologists are scrambling to master that along with all of the expertise needed to solve mysteries of nature. A new statistical framework could help, according to a new paper, ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 9:19am

Rhythms In Maths- Most Out Of Time Perfect Drummers Can Be- Penrose Tiling Rhythm- Cantor's Set Rhythm,...

I'd like to share some of the amazing range of rhythms you can find, linking music and maths, some discovered only in the last few years. These include: fibonacci gamelan patterns- highly structured yet the pattern of beats never repeats; the rhythm ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 10 2014 - 9:49pm

Personalized Drug Testing, Thanks To Your Heart On A Chip

What did USC biomedical engineering assistant professor Megan McCain think when she first saw a real human heart, with all of those thin valves that have to open and close every second of our lives? “Wow, there’s a lot of plaques of fat. I need to stop eat ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2014 - 9:00am

An Algorithm To Explain Sex

What do you get when you mix theorists in computer science with evolutionary biologists? You get an algorithm to explain sex. A fascinating mystery of evolution is how sexual recombination and natural selection produced the teeming diversity of life that ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 3:05pm