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Diary of dangerous curves
Cool news, math dorks: my friend Jennifer Ouellette’s new book The ...
Tue 31 Aug 10 from Discover Magazine
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The world's hardest sudoku - solved
Put down your pencils, here is the solution to Finnish mathematician Arto Inkala's fiendish puzzleYesterday we printed the "world's hardest sudoku", created by Finnish mathematician Arto Inkala. ...
Mon 23 Aug 10 from Guardian.co.uk
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Child of Vietnam war wins top maths honour
Vietnamese-born mathematician Ngo Bao Chau on Thursday won the maths world's version of a Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, cementing a journey that has taken him from war-torn Hanoi to the pages ...
Thu 19 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
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What Does 'P vs. NP' Mean for the Rest of Us?
A proposed "proof" is probably a bust--but even failed attempts can advance computer science. Programmers and computer scientists have been buzzing for the past week about the latest attempt ...
Thu 19 Aug 10 from MIT Technology Review
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Study takes novel approach to understanding pituitary function
A Florida State University biologist and mathematician have joined forces to find out exactly how the brain oversees the secretion of the hormone prolactin from the pituitary gland, research ...
Tue 3 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
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Russian mathematician wins $1 million prize, but he appears to be happy with $0
Who would turn down a $1 million prize for solving a math problem? Russia - Clay Mathematics Institute - Richard Hamilton - Math - Mathematics
Thu 1 Jul 10 from The Washington Post
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'Nyet' to $1 million? Math genius may reject award
(AP) -- Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia - and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped ...
Mon 29 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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NJIT prof sees 70 percent chance for Yanks to win the 2009 World Series
NJIT's Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, has computed the probability of the Yankees and Phillies ...
Tue 27 Oct 09 from PhysOrg
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Genetically engineered bacteria compute the route
US researchers have created 'bacterial computers' with the potential to solve complicated mathematics problems. The findings of the research, published in BioMed Central's open access Journal ...
Fri 24 Jul 09 from PhysOrg
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Scientists use math modeling to predict unknown biological mechanism of regulation
A team of scientists, led by a biomedical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin, have demonstrated - for the first time - that mathematical models created from data obtained by DNA microarrays, ...
Wed 14 Oct 09 from PhysOrg
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