Posts Tagged ‘math’

New Dilemmas for the Prisoner » American Scientist

November 12, 2013

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner

New Dilemmas for the Prisoner: Weird things happen with repeated iterations of the #PrisonersDilemma
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner #gametheory

New Dilemmas for the Prisoner » American Scientist

November 11, 2013

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner

New Dilemmas for the Prisoner: Weird things happen in with repeated iterations of the #PrisonersDilemma
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner #gametheory

Check out 14 amazing fractals found in nature | MNN – Mother Nature Network

May 6, 2013

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/14-amazing-fractals-found-in-nature trees, current, shorelines, water, broccoli….
Look at fractal journey movie at end of article

Crinkly Curves » American Scientist

April 29, 2013

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.16035,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

The Hilbert Hotel – NYTimes.com

March 11, 2013

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/the-hilbert-hotel

The Most Striking Equation in Mathematics « Galileo’s Pendulum

February 5, 2013

Euler’s Eq.
http://galileospendulum.org/2011/12/09/the-most-striking-equation-in-mathematics/

SIAM: M.C. Escher: More Mathematics Than Meets the Eye

August 7, 2012

http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=474

Void in center in original is filled in by determining spatial transform and redrawing

SIAM: M.C. Escher: More Mathematics Than Meets the Eye

July 28, 2012

http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=474

An Adventure in the Nth Dimension » American Scientist

April 16, 2012

An Adventure in the Nth Dimension » American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/an-adventure-in-the-nth-dimension n-ball size v n: pi, 4.2=pi*4/3, 5=(pi^2)/2, 5.3=(8/15)*pi^2, 5.2, 4.7, 4.1…. to zero
resulting from the competition of pi^m v m!

Article: Op-Ed: 364-Day Calendar Intriguing But Unnecessary

January 15, 2012

Op-Ed: 364-Day Calendar Intriguing But Unnecessary
https://www.npr.org/2012/01/02/144583975/op-ed-364-day-calendar-intriguing-but-unnecessary

mentions knuckle counting, viz

http://lifehacker.com/232828/macgyver-tip-use-your-knuckles-to-remember-each-months-days