Category: Mathematics
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News Wire: (Mostly) Underwater Edition
Three of the four science stories that caught my eye this morning take place under water: “Case study: Making waves with new power generation technology” (Financial Times)“What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish” (New York Times)“Growing Pains for a Deep-See Home Built of Subway Cars” (New York Times) Not content with those…
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Music To My Ears, and Eyes
I’m telling you, Julie Rehmeyer is fast becoming one of my favorite science writers. Her Science News Math Trek piece this week follows up on a paper by music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko that represents musical chords in hyperdimensional geometries. Even cooler than Rehmeyer’s very accessible written description of the work, though, are the accompanying videos…
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“The Proof” That I’m a Nerd
Well, once again, one of my Saturday posts is just going to be me telling you about whatever Julie Rehmeyer’s written in the Science News “Math Trek” feature this week. This time around, it’s Sophie Germain. She’s a really interesting figure in the history of math (and especially the history of gender bias in STEM…
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This Algorithm Kills Fascists
There’s a great art-meets-science article in this week’s Science News (it turns out their “Math Trek” feature is usually killer). Julie Rehmeyer does a nice bit of science writing here, giving just the right amount of detail about how Howarth and Short’s algorithms were used to restore the only known live recording of the great…