Time Out for Mathematics!

...'m teaching mathematics is kind of funny, as I almost always failed that class in grade school. And one of the things that bugged me was how my teachers never took the time to exlain WHY certain mathematical functions existed. They just told me to trust them on this. And one of those things was, specifically, why two negative numbers, when multiplied together, make a positive. That doesn't make a ...

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They Said It Couldn't Be Done (And they were probably right)

... table, a long curl of peel dangling from the blade. It is a pure, true, almost mathematical statement. Several mugs of instant coffee drag her out of dreamland. Penny has slowly come to ... the "situation room" everything can be distilled into numbers. The white board speaks the irrefutable, mathematical truth. But some things just don't make scientific sense. You can't calculate right and ...

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How to Tank: Basics

... skill (the number on your character sheet) is not this post' purpose, check out the WoWWiki article about defense if you want to know more. Now, that covers tanking from a purely statistical/mathematical perspective, at least for the raw basics. Beyond that you want to stack other avoidance and mitigation stats like parry and dodge, but that comes late-game generally. The other part of tanking, ...

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Elizabeth Woodcock, "1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World"

..., surgical scalpels, arches and observatories all have in common? Were Leonardo da Vinci’s flight ideas originals? Who devised the casing for pill capsules and where did Fibonacci learn to flex his mathematical fingers? All these answers can be found here in ‘1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World’. Over 370 pages of colour photographs and written in an accessible style for those with ...

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Edge of Chaos (11.1/15)

... garbage out? Okay , so he did know what was wrong with his mind. Bus accident plus heart attack plus coma plus deep brain stimulation totaled to turning into a complete idiot. The mathematical equation was one he could clearly see on his imaginary whiteboard, but for the life of him, that knowledge somehow didn’t translate into something he could understand much less tolerate. Trying to push ...

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Gender, culture, and mathematics performance

...? Do gender differences exist among the mathematically talented? Do females exist who possess profound mathematical talent? In regard to the first question, contemporary data indicate that girls in the U..... Responding to the third question, we document the existence of females who possess profound mathematical talent. Finally, we review mounting evidence that both the magnitude of mean math gender ...

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reader question about "smart girl"-childhood

... taken calculus in high school? What do you wish they knew? And the guy said, funny you should mention that, we don't feel like a lot of kids are coming in having learned a lot of mathematical thinking, they're just doing calculations. So we put together these supplemental packets for freshmen who are through calc but not really where we want them to be. Here's one for your kid. So what the folks...

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arcadia, as always

... the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. (50-1) ... Bernard: If knowledge isn’t self-knowledge it isn’t doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it ...

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The Brink

... long identity crisis. The black nail polish and purple hair, the tight jeans and J-lo style earrings, the birkenstocks and the bra burning, dating white trash, dating a multi-millionaire, dating a mathematical physicist, wanting to be a writer, a therapist, a writer-therapist, a therapist-writer, a yogi soy loving bohemian vegetarian writer-therapist, a Baha'i, etc. It won't be until after I ...

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Star Trek minutia

... concerts (the consensus was, yes, he would). Then someone commented that Spock would love Bach and Uhura would love Mozart. Well, Bach makes some sense, seeing as he's highly mathematical, but I see Spock more liking some of the late modernists, like Schonberg or Dallapiccola. Composers who were all about deconstructing traditional views of harmony, who picked apart intervals, built their music ...

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