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Science News
Julie Rehmeyer |
Traveler's Dilemma: When It's Smart To Be Dumb Some game theory paradoxes can be resolved by assuming that people adopt multiple personae, and aren't rational.   |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2008 |
Playing the Trends Technical analysis can be as simple or complex as a chartist wants it to be. Here are a few popular techniques |
Science News
Julie Rehmeyer |
Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician She pioneered the use of applied statistics to develop policy and developed novel ways of displaying them. |
Science News
November 14, 2008
Julie Rehmeyer |
How To (really) Trust A Mathematical Proof Mathematicians develop computer proof-checking systems in order to realize century-old dreams of fully precise, accurate mathematics. |
Science News
November 7, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
The Princeton Companion To Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, Ed Students of math will find this book a helpful reference for understanding their classes; students of everything else will find helpful guides to understanding how math describes it all. |
Science News
October 31, 2008
Julie Rehmeyer |
Unknotting Knot Theory New techniques are beginning to unravel the mysteries of knots, revealing a great mathematical superstructure in the process |
Scientific American
October 2008
Heather Wax |
Using Math to Explain How Life on Earth Began How did self-replicating molecules come to dominate the early earth? Using the mathematics of evolutionary dynamics, Martin A. Nowak can explain the change from no life to life |
Wired
August 2008
Josh McHugh |
Tom Vanderbilt's Why We Drive the Way We Do Unlocks How to Unclog Traffic Researcher uses mathematical algorithms to determine the best decisions to make when stuck in traffic. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
Robert W. Lucky |
Zipf Drive How power-law statistics apply to language. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
Joint Venture Plans to Expand Project Euclid Cornell University Library and Duke University Press have established a joint venture to expand the services of the online information community for mathematics and statistics resources from independent publishers. |
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