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Knots in the News
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By halewis
Posted Fri Dec 21, 2007 at 04:38:31 PM PDT
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Knot theory is the branch of mathematics used to classify and analyze different types of knots. The mathematical focus is primarily on knots that have already formed, but recently two physicists from UC San Diego, Dorian M. Raymer and Douglas E. Smith, examined why knots form. Their article, "Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string," appeared in the October 16 issue of the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Fall 2007 Issue of The Harvard College Mathematics Review -- Vol. 1 No. 2
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By scottkom
Posted Thu Dec 20, 2007 at 10:43:32 AM PDT
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The second issue (Vol. 1 No. 2) of The Harvard College Mathematics Review is now available online and in print! This issue includes "Problems of Circle Tangency" by Gregory Minton (Harvey Mudd '08), "Fireflies & Oscillators" by Pablo Azar (Harvard '09), a faculty feature article by Elemer Elad Rosinger (University of Pretoria), original problems, and more!
The issue is available free at http://www.thehcmr.org/.
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A new concept in publishing ...
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By overconvergent
from the unusual journals department
Posted Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 04:57:04 AM PDT
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I am now sure how serious a journal this is, but the concept is interesting and novel.
From their website:
Rejecta Mathematica is a new, open access, online journal that publishes only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals (or conferences with comparable review standards) in the mathematical sciences.
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Nobel Prizes for 2007
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By overconvergent
from the why doesn't maths have one? department
Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 05:45:27 AM PDT
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It is well-known that there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics, but there are prizes in both Physics and Economics, and sometimes these are mathematically related.
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Checkers solved; Rubik's cube algorithm improved
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By overconvergent
from the solving hard problems with lots of computer power department
Posted Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:51:36 PM PDT
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A research programme that has been running since 1989 has proved that, with perfect play on both sides, the game of checkers is a draw. Also, it has now been proved that Rubik's cube can be solved in at most 26 moves.
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Elsewhere on the web
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By overconvergent
from the links on the web department
Posted Fri Jul 06, 2007 at 12:53:07 PM PDT
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We report on some mathematics links from the Internet (and on the protective power of mathematics journals against bullets).
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Royal Society of Chemistry sounds alarm over mathematics preparation
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By overconvergent
from the geometrical intuition department
Posted Sun Apr 29, 2007 at 03:02:54 PM PDT
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The Royal Society of Chemistry warned this week that students in Britain were increasingly badly prepared for university courses, because mathematics is not compulsory in schools after the age of 16.
They ran a competition, comparing a Chinese entrance examination (in Chemistry) with a British equivalent.
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The 2006/7 Wolf Prize
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By Adonis
Posted Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 03:02:34 PM PDT
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THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS
The Prize Committee for Mathematics has unanimously decided that the 2006/7 Wolf Prize will be jointly awarded to:
Stephen J. Smale of
the University of California at Berkeley
for his "groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics"
and
Harry Furstenberg of
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
for his "profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogenous flows".
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