Archive for the ‘Mathematics’ Category

Lenna's photo has been used since the 1970's as a test image for compression techniques. And there is a spicey background to Lenna...

Tomorrow we celebrate Pi Day and Einstein's birthday.

Universal Leonardo is a virtual museum of da Vinci's contribution.

Can you prove that 0 = infinity? Here's a neat way to do it. The math logic is mostly right!

How mathematics education should be - concrete, applied - and fun. This is a nice story from USA today about a mathematics teacher who appears to be doing it right.

A video about Dell's finely tuned manufacturing system shows how a few seconds shaved off the time to make a computer can be worth millions to the company.

There was an interesting article about Ron Fedkiw of Stanford. He is heavily involved in the mathematics behind computer graphics.

Gaisma has many interesting day/night graphs, which are (almost) sine curves.

The Moors were Muslims who overtook Spain in the 8th century AD, bringing with them a Renaissance of learning, especially in math and science.

YouTube has gone from obscurity to the 5th highest ranking website in just 18 months.