Math News Archives

Page:  1 2 3 4

• Maxwell sees intrinsic link between art, science

  Albia Newspapers - You can only understand the real nature of matter through mathematics." Today, many artists create conceptual art, he said. "The real important thing about a work of art is the idea or the concept that is behind it," Maxwell said. Conceptual artists ...
  2007-11-25 09:17:00

• Kalembe Ndile’s strange world

  East African Standard - Kalembe recalls that he was so good at mathematics that his teacher used to consult him in the middle of the lesson when he was only in Class Six. "Yes, Ndile, what do you think? Are we doing well?" The math teacher would ask Kalembe, who claims he ...
  2007-11-25 12:44:00

• A collection of artworks at odds with itself

  Lebanon Daily Star - Each still life in oil on canvas is a trial of shadow, volume and form, and the portraits in oil on carton are clearly indebted to the now passe Italian marriage of naturalism and mathematics. As a student Tabet spent his summers apprenticing for one ...
  2007-11-25 01:56:00

• A Disobedient Pioneer

  Moscow Times - Graduating from Moscow State University's Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Bebchuk, along with other classmates, was sent to work on the hotel and airline reservation system for the 1980 Olympic games. This jump-started his ...
  2007-11-25 03:07:00

• PERSPECTIVE: Understanding one another: Avoiding pitfalls, defining ...

  Morning Journal - ... him from speaking at the University of California at Davis all because he had the temerity to suggest, as one factor among many, that differences between men and women account for part of the reason that more men excel in the sciences and mathematics ...
  2007-11-25 02:10:00

• Cambridge professor scoops international prize

  Cambridge Network - The Institute aims to promote mathematics and the sciences in Africa, including the creation of African initiatives in these areas, and to train postgraduate students. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) began as a conference in 1984, though it ...
  2007-11-25 03:50:00

• Maths Department Of Sultan Sharif Ali Secondary School Organizes ...

  BruDirect - Bandar Seri Begawan - The Mathematics Department of Sultan Sharif Ali Secondary School yesterday organised a telematch as part of the school's end-of-year activities. Students from Form One, Form Two and Form Four participated in the telematch. A ...
  2007-11-25 04:05:00

• Contribute To The Country CHMS Students Told

  BruDirect - Their efforts were proven when it was unveiled that the school was among the top 10 in the `O' level Mathematics and Commerce class exam, and the best in Chinese language and other events. Mdm Kho also announced that the best ...
  2007-11-25 04:19:00

• Hunting male polar bears could endanger species: data

  Montreal Gazette - The study combined mathematics and biology to examine data from 1997, the latest numbers available for that population of bears. In natural conditions, Molnar said there would be two to three males for every female "But because we have taken out males ...
  2007-11-25 04:26:00

• Tech fans make the best of another loss (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

  The second game began even before the first one was over. The field was at the corner of Techwood Drive and Bobby Dodd Way.
  2007-11-25 01:33:31

• City Wise / Career (The Moscow Times)

  Sergei Bebchuk no longer remembers the exact circumstances when he claimed to know how to make a perfect school. "I think it was at the annual computer science conference in Abrau-Durso," he said.
  2007-11-25 03:25:16

• Maths Department Of Sultan Sharif Ali Secondary School Organizes Telematch (BruDirect.com)

  Bandar Seri Begawan - The Mathematics Department of Sultan Sharif Ali Secondary School yesterday organised a telematch as part of the school's end-of-year activities.
  2007-11-25 04:33:26

• Karr named U.S. Professor of the Year (McKinney Messenger)

  To the newest U.S. Professor of the Year, the nation’s lagging math skills are serious business. “This problem is not going to be solved if we can joke about it,” said veteran Collin County Community College mathematics professor Rosemary Karr. “If you couldn’t read and write, would you be laughing?
  2007-11-25 02:38:27

• Hoping to inspire future engineers

  Iowa City Press-Citizen - According to a study by the released last year, fewer than one-third of U.S. fourth- and eighth-graders performed at or above a proficient level in mathematics; only 15 percent of all U.S. undergraduates receive their degrees in natural science or ...
  2007-11-25 01:10:00

• Little-known rule helps schools meet state standards

  Everything Alabama - Most schools fell short because students in one or two demographic groups -- commonly special education -- scored too low on the Alabama Reading and Mathematics Test. Sometimes the difference was just a matter of a couple of percentage points. Still ...
  2007-11-25 02:21:00

Page:  1 2 3 4