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jAdis Needs Some Math Review

By Matt, on August 28th, 2009%

If you’ve ever gone for a walk down main street in Santa Monica, you may have passed by a store front filled with all kinds of paraphernalia. This is the home of jAdis, a museum of sorts, filled with props from TV and movie history, from a model of the robot in Metropolis to a . . . → Read More: jAdis Needs Some Math Review

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Math Gets Around: Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse

By Matt, on August 18th, 2009%

If pop culture has taught us anything, it is that in the event of a zombie outbreak, we are royally screwed. When faced with an onslaught of classical zombies (of the type first made famous by Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead), films have shown again and again that we are no match . . . → Read More: Math Gets Around: Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse

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Math in the Movies: District 9

By Matt, on August 11th, 2009%

In continuing with the theme of discussing movies before I see them, I’d like to say a few words about the upcoming film District 9. You can see the trailer below, if you haven’t heard of it (although if you live in LA it’s difficult to plead ignorance, since the viral marketing has been . . . → Read More: Math in the Movies: District 9

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Read a Mathematician’s Lament

By Matt, on August 4th, 2009%

I recently had the pleasure of stumbling across Paul Lockhart’s essay, A Mathematician’s Lament. Lockhart, a former research mathematician in analytic number theory who received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1990, decided to leave academia in 2000 in order to concentrate on K-12 math education, which he hass been doing at Saint Ann’s School in . . . → Read More: Read a Mathematician’s Lament

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