Are you flush with free time or procrastinating on some big important project? Try out the Bulbous Blob Puzzle. Professor Albert von Braun, noted food researcher and author of the Chinese Laundromat Cookbook, has just made a major breakthrough on his long sought after Grand Unified Meal Theory. Working in his laboratory late into the… [Read more…]
December 31, 2006
Did you know that 95% of all statistics reported on blogs are made up? Not only that, but you have to be particularly careful when reading reports coming out from the media that interpret poll results. Here’s a perfect example. Two stories came out from the Associated Press in the last two days. The first… [Read more…]
August 13, 2006
There are currently a few bugs still to be worked out but, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the transition to the new server has gone fairly smoothly. You might’ve noticed my weather plugin on the sidebar is on the fritz. The primary reason for the switch was that the previous server was a borrowed… [Read more…]
May 31, 2006
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,… [Read more…]
May 31, 2006
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… [Read more…]
May 15, 2006
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 that was… [Read more…]
May 14, 2006
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 knack… [Read more…]
May 6, 2006
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… [Read more…]
March 14, 2006
Yeah, that’s right. It’s Pi Day. Recall that [tex]\pi \approx 3.14[/tex], 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 expansion of… [Read more…]
March 8, 2006
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… [Read more…]
February 15, 2007
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