Math News Archives

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• Hawking, Mandela meet in quest for African Einsteins - Gulf Times

  JOHANNESBURG: Scientist Stephen Hawking hailed the peaceful end of South Africa’s apartheid era as one of the great achievements of his lifetime on Thursday night as he met the first black president Nelson Mandela. “I am very pleased to meet you ...
  2008-05-17 03:40:00

• 161st Commencement at Saint Mary's College Save Email Print - WNDU

  Saint Mary's College took advantage of the sunny day on Saturday. The college's 161st annual commencement ceremonies were held Saturday afternoon. Nearly 400 Saint Mary's graduates received their degrees. The great weather allowed ceremonies to go as ...
  2008-05-17 03:54:00

• Meeting with Americans in Venezuela, Chávez shows a kinder ... - Boston Globe

  President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela had just wrapped up a press conference, extravagant in its theatrics, where he denounced an Interpol report that authenticated documents linking his government to rebels in neighboring Colombia. That lasted four ...
  2008-05-17 05:20:00

• The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits - New York Times

  MATHEMATICIANS have long tried, and failed, to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, a stubbornly unyielding math problem. Good luck to whoever tries to figure it out. For the first correct proof, a $1 million prize will be awarded by the Clay Mathematics ...
  2008-05-17 04:30:00

• Enjoy upcoming events - Philadelphia Daily News

  The Comic Energy Sketch Comedy Troupe fractures some fairy tales this weekend. "A Night of Comedic Fairy Tales" parodies those familiar stories of childhood for grown-up fun. Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge St., 9 and 11 tonight, 7 p.m. tomorrow, $10 ...
  2008-05-17 04:37:00

• North Carolina Students Win National Team America Rocketry Challenge - Forbes

  THE PLAINS, Va., May 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A team from Enloe High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, won the national Sixth Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge Saturday, beating out 99 rivals for the title. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com ...
  2008-05-17 05:27:00

• Bishop Walsh pioneers (Cumberland Times-News)

  Bishop Walsh third-grader Loren O’Rourke uses a chalkboard to do a mathematics problem in social studies class during the annual Pioneer Day event Friday morning at the school
  2008-05-17 01:34:45

• The Book of Murder, By Guillermo Martineztrs Sonia Soto (Independent)

  Guillermo Martinez has a mathematics PhD, and the creativity and the mastery of logic necessary to that stern discipline are both evident in this brilliant crime thriller. In Buenos Aires, a writer of genius is gradually killing off the friends and family of a young woman who inadvertently wrecked his life. Or is he? The deaths all appear to be accidents and it would have taken superhuman ...
  2008-05-17 04:26:13

• For love of the noble profession (The New Straits Times)

  In 1952 a young man embarked on his journey as a teacher in Alor Star. Little did he realise he would still be on that journey more than five decades later. But years of coaching students in Science, English and Mathematics has not diminished his love for teaching. This not-so-young man tells AUDREY VIJAINDREN why teaching is more than just a job
  2008-05-17 05:00:51

• Judge releases dad from jail - Zanesville Times Recorder

  HAMILTON -- A Butler County judge has decided to give Brian Gegner and his truancy-prone daughter another chance to make sure she completes some basic education. Following a lengthy and emotional hearing Friday in Juvenile Court, Judge David Niehaus ...
  2008-05-17 11:51:00

• Veteran painter calls Fiuzi a “contemporary Khayyam” - Tehran Times

  An exhibit displaying the artworks of Yahya Fiuzi tntitled “Beyond Numbers, Magic Squares, Paintings and Sketches” is underway at the Niavaran Cultural Center. “My first meeting with this artist dates back to an event in which he was speaking ...
  2008-05-17 12:55:00

• Typing (and Knowing) Every Last Word (New York Times)

  Being a professional media transcriptionist, the latter term not being accepted by a spell checker, nevertheless remains a real job.
  2008-05-17 12:10:13

• The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits (New York Times)

  Empirical evidence suggests that Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft?s chief executive, will not succeed to sustain in the Internet era what his company had attained in the personal computing era.
  2008-05-17 12:09:23

• PENTA Building Group awarded contract (Reno Gazette-Journal)

  The PENTA Building Group announced the company has been awarded a contract to build the new $42 million Davidson Mathematics and Science Center at the southeast corner of campus at the University of Nevada, Reno. Once completed, the 105,000-square-foot facility will feature a 14,000-square-foot auditorium, a new dean's office, laboratories for chemistry and biology, state-of-the-art classrooms ...
  2008-05-17 11:50:09

• Barrett recognized as 21st Century Leader at UMass Amherst 138th ... - Sentinel & Enterprise

  AMHERST -- John P. Barrett, son of John and Mary Barrett of Highland Street, Townsend, is one of 11 seniors who will be presented with 21st Century Leaders awards during the 138th Commencement of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst on Saturday ...
  2008-05-17 07:05:00

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