{"id":484,"date":"2006-12-13T04:39:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T04:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2014-11-18T20:19:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T12:19:16","slug":"mathematical-moments-a-great-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/mathematical-moments-a-great-resource-484","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Moments - a great resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Mathematical Society has produced an interesting set of posters that depict the many uses of mathematics in \"real life\". The series is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/mathmoments\/mathmoments\">Mathematical Moments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are around 50 topics, including:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/mathmoments\/mm16-brain.pdf\"><b>Mapping the brain:<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/mathmoments\/mm16-brain.pdf\"><img id=\"image481\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/ams_brain.gif\" alt=\"brain\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/mathmoments\/mm14-routing.pdf\"><b>Tracking Internet traffic<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/mathmoments\/mm14-routing.pdf\"><img id=\"image482\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/ams_internet.gif\" alt=\"internet\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/mathmoments\/mm2-movies.pdf\"><b>Math in the Movies<\/b><\/a> (about CGI effects)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/mathmoments\/mm2-movies.pdf\"><img id=\"image483\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/ams_movies.gif\" alt=\"math in the movies\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have supplied \"short versions\" as well, with less verbiage and larger pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The disappointment for me is that the photos are quite pixelated. When you print them in A4 size (US Letter), they are not very attractive. There is one poster (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/mathmoments\/mm24-image.pdf\">Enhancing your Image<\/a>) about image improvement and at least that poster has reasonable image quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/mathematical-moments-a-great-resource-484#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Mathematical Society has produced an interesting set of posters that depict the many uses of mathematics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}