Time Out for Mathematics!

...," as it has begun to kill cell-phone reception) and taking ten minutes away from the ceramics database. I am, in the afternoons, teaching a TAKS math class. Tne fact that I'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. ...

enjoy

... to argue. Give them culture. Progress. Let them watch us, and compete with us. That's what fights off entropy. Keenness, from competition. Predation. Recycling. It's very interesting to combine mathematics, sociology, and history like this, since it doesn't make any sense to just have all the countries carry over. The Fertile Crescent was so badly managed and desertified, it would  have to ...

Gender, culture, and mathematics performance

... nations, we address 3 questions: Do gender differences in mathematics performance exist in the general population? Do gender differences ...in the U.S. have reached parity with boys in mathematics performance, a pattern that is found in some other nations...several studies indicate that greater male variability with respect to mathematics is not ubiquitous. Rather, its presence correlates with several ...

Monday Mathematics 60

Allow & Z; nitrogen ) be the figure of distinguishable prime factors of the integer nitrogen , with us delimiting & Z; ( 1 ) =0 ( see, for instance, here What, so, is the value of the series How about Mention firstly that if a and bacillus are reciprocally prime, so , and thence Now the fundamental theorem of arithmetic states us that every ...

Tangents (8/?), CSI: New York, TA, Flack/OC

...halls, and despite the fact that I'd done research on the subject, I had still lost painfully to him. He was really good, don't get me wrong, but I should have been able to win, what with my mathematics background and all. Because that's all pool was. Well, that and physics. But I usually did pretty well without the aid of physics. The rest of his Crime Lab buddies, on the other hand, well, I was ...

... truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them--Alfred North Whitehead, "An Introduction to Mathematics" Thanx to qotdrss

Inevitable

... it's based on the natural laws of the universe and sometimes it's based on our gut. We know that it's inevitable that a dropped toaster from a skyscraper window will fall. We can back that up with mathematics. We know we're inevitably going to die. We can back that up with life experience. Sure, people of faith may believe in the afterlife, that this "mortal coil" is just a train station on the ...

These are the voyages of the starship Quantico

... all time is in the new Star Trek film. So. Um. This got me thinking... Do you think they have the BAU in the 23rd century? Just think! Spencer Reid and Chekov bond over complex mathematics and joining Starfleet before puberty! Morgan and Kirk have an old fashioned alpha-male square off! Penelope dazzles the Enterprise engineering crew with tech genius and non-regulation dress! Hotch and Spock ...

And Guest Part 3

..."I'll say," Dee grinned but he quickly pulled Derek into a conversation about football. Spencer looked at Paul who was still regrading him a little strangely. "What exactly do you.. y'know?" "Oh, ah mathematics, chemistry and engineering." He answered quickly. Paul nodded, "You should talk to Bruce the kids a little genius too. He's Derek's moms side of the family. I think.. Hey Derek is that ...

Friends?

... really caught on with my friends. I'd like some stuff to read about real people, as opposed to a bunch of "suggested users." acruelambition // @jtoz A little about me: Name is Jen, 21 years old, born and raised in New Jersey, student studying mathematics and economics, full-time LGBT activist, kind of a music snob, but also a really awesome friend. Add me and I'll add you back =]