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"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung," Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1849. Music professor Dmitri Tymoczko now begs to differ: According to his research, there's an entire world of complex ...
2008-04-24 11:17:00
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Why bring together two fields that seem to many people so very disparate" What could mathematics and poetry share, except that the mention of either one is sometimes enough to bring an uneasy chill into a conversation"from Discovering Patterns in ...
2008-04-24 09:12:00
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"Let's game this out," he says, playing with delegate and superdelegate numbers on the network's Magic Wall, trying to show through the power of bar graphs how much easier it would be for Barack Obama to win the Democratic nomination than it would be ...
2008-04-24 09:44:00
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Resize Text Our mother told us that studying mathematics would train us to think logically. It failed to, so we went into journalism. Many people who read Phyllis Jordan's Page Three piece yesterday about confusion over her daughter's math homework ...
2008-04-24 11:17:00
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Entranced, perhaps, by those infamous hypothetical trains, many educators in recent years have incorporated more and more examples from the real world to teach abstract concepts. The idea is that making math more relevant makes it easier to learn ...
2008-04-24 09:58:00
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