Today's Math Behind the News
A light-hearted and unique perspective on today's top news stories by math evangelist Larry Shiller
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December 28, 2007: There's a new Sage in mathematics
An open source program seeks to outmath the competition
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December 27, 2007: A new way to beat the stock market
Bring order to chaos in the stock market: a new tool for stock market analysis is discovered
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December 26, 2007: A new solution to support Moore's Law
Researchers found a way to use an electron's spin to make a quantum computer,
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December 25, 2007: Using math to avoid the Christmas traffic jam
Be careful how you apply the brakes on the highway, you could ruin everyone's day
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December 24, 2007: Monkey math
A recent study shows that monkeys can do math nearly as well as humans
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December 21, 2007: The mathematics of square dancing
Math professor David Schmitz uses square dancing to teach math concepts like shapes and patterns, group theory, fractions, and permutations
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December 20, 2007: The errors of excellence
A recent study shows errors improve performance
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December 19, 2007: Infinity
Infinity comes in all shapes and sizes
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December 18, 2007: Glowing in the dark
Scientists play cat and mouse
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December 17, 2007: Simple voting math not so simple in Ohio
Ohio voting machines have critical flaws, again
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December 14, 2007: Brain teasers
Looking for a cool job? Be prepared for some crazy interview questions.
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December 13, 2007: Ticket price math
Are posted ticket prices obsolete? Why not let people pay what tickets are worth to begin with?
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December 12, 2007: The search for beauty
Finding the most beautiful is an enjoyable search, even if results aren't unanimous
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December 11, 2007: They're back: Led Zeppelin, who almost wasn't
Jimmy Page left science behind to make Led Zeppelin an historic band
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December 10, 2007: We're all optimists when we first determine who we like
People like ambiguity, but more information makes us less forgiving
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December 10, 2007: We\'re all optimists when we first determine who we like
People like ambiguity, but more information makes us less forgiving
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December 7, 2007: The stats say moderate drinking may be good for you
Many people like to drink. So let's find some benefits here.
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December 6, 2007: How a nuclear weapon works
An unexpected result makes Uranium 235 an ideal nuclear bomb material. How come it's so hard to make it work?
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December 5, 2007: Not good math news
US flunks internationally in math, and locally in reading
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December 4, 2007: Is it all about geometry?
A physicist says the universe is just a big geometry problem
Today's Math Behind the News
