Mathematics

Science Of Baseball Playoffs: Giants To Win LDS, But Don't Bet The House

Is a 52% chance of winning a prediction?   Well, yes and no. Today begins the Major League Baseball Division Series and New Jersey Institute of Technology associate math professor Bruce Bukiet is back again, performing his analysis of the probability of ea ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2010 - 8:42pm

Welcome to 42

Welcome to October 10th, 2010, 10/10/10, unless you are in Europe, where they will write it 10/10/10 just to be different.  If you are a fan of binary counting, 101010 translated to decimal is...42.   If you are a fan of Douglas Adams, you know that t he & ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 10 2010 - 4:24pm

Despite Hysteria, The Electric Grid Is Not That Easy To Crash

In the wake of blackouts across Italy in 2003 and that same year in the US northeast, two recent studies caused a Congress that has usually been preoccupied with important things like a law that will limit TV commercial volume to berate the energy industry ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2010 - 11:52am

Computational science: Scientific programming does not always compute

When thousands of e-mails were obtained from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, last year, global warming skeptics jumped all over the documents for signs that researchers had manipulated data. They hadn' ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 13 2010 - 7:06pm

Father Of Fractals Benoit Mandelbrot Dies Age 85

Benoit Mandelbrot died on 14 October 2010 in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 85. His name is synonymous with the study of fractals, a term he himself coined in the 1970s. Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension was published in English in ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Oct 20 2010 - 2:25pm

Optimizing Your Marathon- Using Math

A numerical model can't help you finish a marathon, that will take a lot of running, but math can at least help you be the most efficient your body can be. The best part about the night before a marathon is 'carb'ing up' the night befor ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2010 - 5:18pm

Israeli Lottery Wonder Demystified

Israel’s national lottery is all over the news these days because the same numbers (13, 14, 26, 32, 33, and 36) came up twice during one month. A journalist called an expert on gambling, Z. Gilula, a professor of statistics in Israel, and asked him about t ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 24 2010 - 10:26am

Recursive Reasoning- People Are Inherently More Strategic Than Previously Believed

Think you're no good at Chess?   Not a strategic thinker?   You're better at it than you may think. When we make any decisions related to how we think someone else will act,  we must use reason to infer the other's next moves to decide what ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2010 - 12:28pm

Sex Discrimination Go Bye-Bye; Gender Differences In Math A Choice, Not Social Pressure Or Ability

President Obama's  director of the National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers, made no friends among women when, as president of Harvard, he tried to have a discourse about gender differences in the higher levels of math-intensive fields.    He quick ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2010 - 2:12pm

The Math Of Baseball: Bayes Takes On The World Series

It's playoff time in baseball and the Giants have home field advantage over the Texas Rangers starting tomorrow, October 27th. Baseball, more so than any other sport, lends itself to numerical analysis because virtually everything except defense is ri ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 30 2010 - 8:40pm