Archive for the ‘Mathematics’ Category
17 December 2012

Here’s an interactive graph that allows you to explore the concepts behind the Fourier Series.
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7 December 2012

What’s the connection between verbs, math and hip hop?
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30 November 2012

Meet 12-year-old Amy O’Toole presenting a scientific paper that starts, “Once upon a time…”
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28 November 2012

Here’s a real-life application of calculus posed by a roller door engineer.
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26 November 2012

Students in Ajab village, India, enjoying a math lesson via Web conference from the US.
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23 November 2012

Steven Strogatz talks about how flocking behavior naturally occurs – and some mathematical reasons for it.
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21 November 2012

Calculus can be a bit of a mystery at first. Explore these graphs to get a better idea of what differentiation means.
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19 November 2012

A reader asked how to find the volume of a pendant-shaped container. We need volume of solid of revolution.
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12 November 2012

How can we enjoy music while traveling on noisy public transport? What is the math behind noise canceling headphones?
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28 October 2012

Here’s a neat mathematically-generated Halloween pumpkin, developed using Mathematica. You can manipulate it using the supplied CDF document.
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