10 Delicious Papers from 2010
I’m not going to call these the best papers, or the most cited (although some of them are), but they all contain things that were interesting or unique that encouraged further work and discussion (even...
View ArticleMathematical Literacy: A necessary skill for the 21st century
My Grade 9 math teacher was a jolly British man, and probably taught me one of the most useful things I ever learnt in high school: how to do basic math in my head (or, since I was in the … Continue...
View ArticleMATH and Tumors
Well, not really math, but MATH, for mutant-allele tumor heterogeneity. So not math per se, but a measurement. Allow me to explain. The measurement known as MATH was created by researchers at...
View ArticleSabremetrics and Math: How sports can teach statistics
Statistics. Math. Mental arithmatic. Do those words scare you? If they do, you’re in good company. Mathematical anxiety is a well studied phenomenon that manifests for a number of different reasons....
View ArticleUsing Math to make Guinness
Let me tell you a story about William Sealy Gosset. William was a Chemistry and Math grad from Oxford University in the class of 1899 (they were partying like it was 1899 back then). After graduating,...
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