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Update (Octoboer 2010): 2010 costume ideas can be found here! Update (October 2009): I’ve written a follow-up article with more math themed costume ideas. With Halloween but a few short days away, many of you with a love for both dress-up and mathematics are probably thinking hard about what you should be this year. I thought it would . . . → Read More: Math Goes Trick or Treating Earlier this month, the New York Times ran an article about the dearth of U.S. students with strong skills in mathematics. While this is not quite a revelation, it is made more timely by the recent release of a study that looked at data from Putnam exams, International Mathematical Olympiads, and data from other programs meant . . . → Read More: Math in the News: Is U.S. Culture Crushing Potential Mathletes? As many of you with Gmail accounts may already know, Google launched a feature last week that aims to put arithmetic squarely in the shoes of your most trusted wingman. The feature, dubbed Mail Goggles, is explained in the Official Gmail Blog. In summary, the Mail Goggles feature allows you to make Gmail aware of certain . . . → Read More: Math as Your Wingman: Mail Goggles Math made headlines again last week, with the announcement that the Program in Computing, a subset of UCLA’s Math department, had discovered a prime number with approximately 13 million digits. Among other places, this announcement could be seen on the front page of Yahoo! News – if you missed it, here’s the link. This . . . → Read More: Math in the News: My, What a Big Prime You Have! As you may recall, I have already discussed certain perils associated with different voting systems. However, given all the commotion this election is causing, I thought it may be worthwhile to discuss voting in a bit more detail. There is plenty of information online regarding the relationship between math and voting, for those with interest enough to . . . → Read More: Math Gets Around: Politics, Part 2 |
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