Archive for July, 2011

Friday math movie: The surprising math of cities and corporations

29 July 2011

Math of CitiesThis video discusses some of the reasons – and solutions – for global warming. It’s all about scaling.

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IntMath Newsletter: Reflecting graphs, data and efficient lawn mowing

25 July 2011

In this Newsletter:

1. How to reflect a graph through the x-axis, y-axis or Origin?
2. Visual.ly data visualization
3. Resource: Thinkfinity
4. Friday math movie: Time to re-design medical data
5. Mow your lawn efficiently – use math!
6. Puzzles
7. Final thought: Greatness

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Visual.ly data visualization

18 July 2011

visual.ly -Data visuzalizationsVisual.ly is a neat new data visualization tool. Worth a look, but it has some downsides.

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Friday math movie: Time to re-design medical data

15 July 2011

visual medical dataHere are 2 videos that talk about how personalized patient data in visual form has immense implications for human health.

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Math book: The Mystery of the Prime Numbers

5 July 2011

Book: Mystery of Prime NumbersThis book has an extensive review of prime numbers, their background, distribution and place in math.

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