Natural Blogarithms

Barry Bonds has surpassed Babe Ruth’s homerun record but a large contingent of basefall fans are less than thrilled at the news.  The likelihood of steroid use has tainted the achievement of Bonds prompting many to suggest either an asterisks beside the record or simply a denial of the record entirely.  David Young of Glenshaw, [...]

A worthwhile read:
Medical Guesswork
Modern medicine seems to have missed the usefullness of using mathematics as a decision making process.  This article is about Dr. David Eddy, a cardiac surgeon, who “discovered the beauty of mathematics and its promise of answering medical questions.”  After making it through a two-year math course in a couple of months, [...]

I just finished reading an article in today’s paper that discussed a proposal before the Texas Transportation Commission whereby two interstate highways in West Texas would have their speed limits boosted to 80 mph. Wow. For most of my driving life, that is, since the time I was sixteen, I would have thought [...]

This past week marked the beginning of my venture in the wide world of Bioinformatics. As I was looking for work this summer I was searching for just about any area of research where my affinity for new mathematical applications would be satisfied. Somehow, since I became a mathematics researcher I have developed a [...]

A question was posted in a comment to an earlier post:
I do not know anything about math. Maybe you could answer my question????One of my favorite television shows is: NUMBERS on friday nights on either ABC, NBC, or Cbs. Comes on about 8 or 9 p m central time. Question——Are the different math formulas they [...]

Yeah, that’s right. It’s Pi Day. Recall that , thus it’s natural that March 14th is Pi Day. In honor of this day of celebration, check out a site a recently found called Pi Searcher. You can search for any sequence of digits for where they might occur in the decimal [...]

MathForge.net–Power Tools for Online Mathematics
A Cornell physicist has discovered an algorithm that can solve all sudoku puzzles. He was working with biologists to improve image processing and stumbled across an algorithm he thinks could have many uses. The first of which is ruining sudoku for anyone who learns the algorithm, apparently.
This algorithm, which was extremely [...]

I’ll confess that I am not much of a pedagogical expert when it comes to how I teach mathematics and yet I have made many assumptions about the effectiveness of certain methods as I present daily lectures to “eager” minds. In light of that, I thought I’d pass on a couple of interesting articles [...]

Very cool demo
I’ve seen this in a video on Google video before but this Java Applet version is well done and worth another look.
I’ve heard often people wonder at how BIG God must have been to create a such an expanse as the Universe and yet, as this demonstrates, he must be incredibly [...]

I came across this at think again! I had fun solving it so I’ll pass it along.
Consider the following quadrilateral

The midpoint of opposite sides have been connected, dividing it into 4 parts. We know the areas of three of the regions. The question is what is the area of the fourth?