Archive for July, 2008

Humans spend a lot of their time doing unproductive things. This movie talks about ways of getting humans to play games that help make image search and OCR smarter.

In this Newsletter:

1. Current math events
2. Math tips - (a) Math Dictionary; (b) Numerical methods
3. Poll results - summer math
4. From the math blog
5. Your brain and math

This week's movie is a fun summary of when and how to apply differentiation.

EduSim is a 3-D virtual world that comes as a free download. It's worth checking it out.

There is sophisticated math going on behind the scenes when you perform a search on Google. It involves a technique called latent semantic analysis which is based on matrix operations.

An origami specialist talks about how math helps him to create beautiful art.

Behind every computer game lie many applications of mathematics.

Here are some free math videos from mathTV.com.

Watch them while they are free!

In this Newsletter:

1. IntMath future development - survey results
2. Math tip - Solving math word problems
3. From the math blog
4. Some brain math

How should we solve a math word problem? What goes on in the brain when we are solving such math problems?