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Mathematics Today
October’s site of the month: Mathematics Today Mathematics Today is a magazine published by the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. It is a general interest magazine about mathematics intended for those interested in the subject (by christopher). Much … Continuer la lecture
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Cuentos Con Cuentas
October’s Book of the Month is Cuentos Con Cuentas by Miguel de Guzman (Labor, Barcelona, 1984). This is also published in English under the title The Countingbury Tales, translated by Jody Doran and published by World Scientific (2000). Have a … Continuer la lecture
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Trying to predict a floating leaf: chaos and predictions
Originating author is César R. de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de São Carlos. What path will a leaf follow floating down a turbulent stream? Is it even possible to make a mathematical model that will predict such motion? Is this the … Continuer la lecture
How to get rid of quantifiers?
Originating authors are Reinhard Oldenburg and Michele Artigue. How do computer packages do abstract algebraic problems such as proving statements “for all ” or finding whether a Real Number with certain conditions exists? Recent advances draw on theorems in mathematical … Continuer la lecture
Mathematical Models
September’s featured book of the month is “Mathematical Models” by H.M. Cundy and A.P. Rolett. This classic was first published in 1952 by Oxford University Press, but was republished in paperback by Tarquin in 1981. As well as nets polyhedra, … Continuer la lecture
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Bridges
September’s site of the month: Bridges Bridges is an organisation that oversees the annual Bridges conference on Mathematics and Art. It contains images and resources of many different kinds of artistic representations, from poetry to models, from dance to origami, … Continuer la lecture
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Indra’s Pearls – The Vision of Felix Klein
August’s featured book of the month is “Indra’s Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein” by David Mumford, Caroline Series and David Wright. Wikipedia says: “The book explores the patterns created by iterating conformal maps of the complex plane called Möbius transformations, and their connections with symmetry and self-similarity. The … Continuer la lecture
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Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
July’s featured book of the month is “Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions” by Martin Gardner. This book, which was originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1959, and later by University of Chigaco Press in 1988, is the first of several collections … Continuer la lecture
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Mathematikum
August’s site of the month: Mathematikum This is the website of the Mathematics Museum in Gießen — it includes models and activities of interest to people of all ages.
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Images des Maths
July’s site of the month: Images des Maths This site is affiliated to the French National Center for Scientific Research. It contains reports about the latest events in mathematical research, and up-to-date articles that contain interesting discussions and applications of mathematics … Continuer la lecture
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