Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Math Music
Curious about the sounds of pi, the music of Fibonacci numbers, the blare of chaos, or the chimes of a DNA sequence? This interactive Web site, developed by Jonathan Middleton and his team at Eastern Washington University, provides a variety of tools for composing music based on mathematical recipes that convert sequences of numbers into […]
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A Mathemusical Potpourri
Turning numbers and mathematical ideas into musical tones comes in many flavors.
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Fermat’s Natural Spirals
Using points to trace out spirals produces intriguing secondary patterns.
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Armor-Plated Puzzle
Behind the beautiful patterns of many viral shells lie principles of pure physics and mathematics that scientists have illuminated in recent theoretical studies.
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Primes, Palindromes, and Pyramids
Prime numbers that have the same sequence of digits whether read forward or backward can be built into pyramids.
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Knotted Strings and Inca Accounts
Researchers are starting to untangle mysterious Inca messages encoded in knotted strings.
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Strange Orbits
Orbiting bodies can follow weird trajectories, from figure-eight loops to complex, interlocked paths.
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Closing the Gap on Twin Primes
A long-sought proof that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by only 2 may not be far away.
