Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Pushing the Limit
Scientists are moving closer to constructing superefficient, noisefree data-transmission codes.
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Ask-a-Friend Marketplaces
If you ask enough friends, paying for answers to questions can help you get the answers you need from a social network.
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Numbers of No Escape
Playful iterative processes can get you stuck in mathemagical black holes.
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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.
