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Scientists used Jacob’s Staff during the Renaissance to find heights and distances, using trigonometry. It was a forerunner to the sextant.
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Is Santa’s frantic dash around the world each Christmas Eve, even possible?
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What’s the connection between verbs, math and hip hop?
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Students in Ajab village, India, enjoying a math lesson via Web conference from the US.
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How can we enjoy music while traveling on noisy public transport? What is the math behind noise canceling headphones?
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Here’s a neat mathematically-generated Halloween pumpkin, developed using Mathematica. You can manipulate it using the supplied CDF document.
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This is a bit of light relief – hexagons to music.
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This is the story how an Archimedes manuscript was recovered from a document that was erased, cut up, written on and painted over.
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How can we use math to save collapsing fish stocks? Mathematical modeling is the key.
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