Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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From Number Puzzles to Automata
A high school student plays with numbers and does an award-winning project elucidating the link between automata and divisibility.
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Riding on Square Wheels
A square wheel can roll smoothly if it travels over a roadway of the right geometric shape.
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Pinpointing Killer Asteroids
Two award-winning high school students' projects focused on new methods for pinpointing asteroids locations.
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Deriving the Structure of Numbers
A novel mathematical function called the number derivative offers new insights into the structure of integers.
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Mapping Scientific Frontiers
Can computer visualization help identify turning points and milestones in scientific discovery?
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Mining the Tagged Web
IBM's WebFountain project gathers and annotates Web content on a vast scale to serve as a platform for data miners.
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Toss Out the Toss-Up: Bias in heads-or-tails
Coin tossing is inherently biased, with the coin more likely to land on the same face it started on.
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Sculpting with a Twist
There’s more than one way to slice a bagel. A bagel (or a doughnut) can serve as a physical model for a mathematical surface called a torus. You can slice it horizontally (or longitudinally) so that you end up with two halves, each containing a hole. That’s great for making sandwiches because the cut exposes […]
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Computing on a Cellular Scale
The behavior of leaf pores resembles that of mathematical systems known as cellular automata.
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Computation’s New Leaf
Plants in which large numbers of simple units interact with one another appear to compute how to coordinate the actions of their cells effectively.
