Archive for the ‘Mathematics’ Category

This article uses math to predict what will happen if there is a zombie outbreak.

Probability explains that curse of the super-beautiful - it's hard to find a mate.

Google's PageRank algorithm is based on matrices - and has made its inventors into multi-billionaires.

Here's an article from a gifted young mathematician on the credit crunch.

John Allen Paulos discusses why it is important to understand math in the news.

A 13 million-digit prime was found in 2008. Primes are important in computer security, and if you find one, you can make good money.

The Hubble Space Telescope continues to amaze us with what it reveals about our neighborhood. Here's some math about the Hubble.

Have UK house prices reached a turn around? What does "point of inflection" mean, anyway?

Here's a free online tool that will do algebra, calculus and trigonometry problems, as well as tell you what day of the week you were born!

Will the DJIA follow Japan's Nikkei? The conditions are eerily similar to Japan's situation in the early 1990s.