• IntMath Newsletter: New interactive graphs, ethical math help, resources

    Updated: 2011-12-31 09:11:23
    In this Newsletter: 1. Explore basic graph concepts and understand them better 2. My dilemma - ethical math help 3. Resources 4. Twitter favorites and updates 5. Friday math movies 6. Final thought - mistakes and learning

  • Friday math movie: Facebook for Math Nerds

    Updated: 2011-12-31 09:11:23
    This is first in a series of funny videos for math nerds. You'll enjoy it even if you are normal!

  • Friday math movie: U + Me = Us (calculus)

    Updated: 2011-12-31 09:11:23
    Here's a fun video from boy band 2gether with mathematical mentions.

  • A month of math software – December 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-30 13:18:12
    #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Welcome to the final Month of Math Software for 2011.  Lots of people sent in news items this month so hopefully there will be something of interest to everyone.  If you have any news items or articles that you think will fit in to next month’s edition then please contact me and tell me all [...]

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging in R

    Updated: 2011-12-29 13:42:00
    Volume 44 of the Journal of Statistical Software was published in October 2011.  The special volume on “Magnetic Resonance Imaging in R” features articles and packages related to a variety of imaging modalities:functional MRIdiffusion-weighted...

  • Mathematica 8 Year in Review

    Updated: 2011-12-22 01:08:30
    Mathematica 8 introduced powerful new advances in technical computing. Among them: free-form input and Wolfram|Alpha integration; fully integrated, specialist technical functionality in a number of application areas; tools to develop faster and more powerful applications; and the Computable Document Format (CDF). At the Wolfram Technology Conference 2011, the Wolfram directors who ...

  • OpenXava 4.3: Rapid Java Web Development

    Updated: 2011-12-16 14:00:00
    OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Java Web Development, well-suited for business and database oriented applications. OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in runtime, without code generation. OpenXava 4.3 adds support for total properties in collections, it has a new editor for HTML_TEXT stereotype, add info and warning messages and some other useful new features. Now you can use square brakets in @ListProperties to asociate one or more properties of the container entity to a property of the collection. In this way you can add arbitrary values as totals.read more

  • From “God Plays Dice,” an interesting geometry problem

    Updated: 2011-12-15 14:47:02
    A clever geometry problem: Here's a cute problem (from Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus, p. 244): "What is the average straight line distance between two points on a sphere of radius 1?" (Answer to follow.) Note the number of comments with different answers. "Excursions in Calculus," from what I could see at Google Books, [...]

  • Cross-Platform Mobile Website Development – a Tool Comparison

    Updated: 2011-12-13 05:30:00
    Gartner says, in three years, mobile application development projects will outnumber PC projects by 4-1 ratio and in four years, 50% of the people will primarily access their emails from a mobile device. So, the necessity of establishing a mobile channel for your customer is – well a no-brainer. However, should you just build a mobile website or should you also invest in building native application is not easy to decide. There can be no doubt that you need to have a website optimized for mobile devices. What is the best way to build and maintain that website is not a simple decision.read more

  • Review: Beautiful Mathematics

    Updated: 2011-12-13 04:28:31
    Beautiful Mathematics is a collection of interesting mathematical explorations published by the MAA. If you find the following questions (many of which are new to me) intriguing then you'll probably enjoy the book. Do you know the dimension of Sirpienski's Triangle? Have you ever explored squaring maps? What is the Riemann Sphere? Can you find [...]

  • Answer by jcadam for What programming languages are used in different scientific domains?

    Updated: 2011-12-11 03:33:33
    Stack Exchange log in careers chat meta about faq Stack Overflow Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question What programming languages are used in different scientific domains up vote 15 down vote favorite 5 share fb share tw Does anyone know the distribution of programming language usage over scientific domains Thanks programming-languages computer-science science link improve this question edited Oct 31 at 17:16 AndyL 1,566 1 10 27 asked Nov 25 08 at 18:03 Semenov 89 1 3 What kind of science Biology Computer science Economics Robert . S Nov 25 08 at 18:05 in different kinds of science . Yes , my question is very abstract , and i need some average . result Semenov Nov 25 08 at 18:08 4 The answer is as abstract as your question : that is , all of them . quot Robert . S Nov 25 08

  • Review: Magical Mathematics

    Updated: 2011-12-11 00:02:16
    Deep Math meets great magic tricks. Magical Mathematics is an absolutely remarkable book. I don't say this lightly. Publishers send me plenty of books to review. Some I like more than others. "Magical Mathematics" is a fantastic book for someone who wants to explore the non-trivial math behind some impressive magic tricks. While I enjoy [...]

  • Google adds graphing calculator to its search results

    Updated: 2011-12-06 18:26:50
    Google just announced graphing support to its search engine. More information at the Google Search Blog. Hat tip to my brother Abe.

  • A month of Math Software – November 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-03 18:28:33
    #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Welcome to Walking Randomly’s monthly look at what’s new in the world of mathematical software.  Click here for last month’s edition and check out the archive for all previous editions.  If you have some news about mathematical software and want to get it out to over 2,500 subscribers then contact me and tell me all [...]

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