|
Home / News / Tags / mathematics
|
|
Stories about: mathematics |
|
|
Spotlight is Apple's system-wide desktop search feature found within Mac OS X. The feature was introduced in OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on April 29, 2005, aimed at providing a quick-locate option for all files on a Mac. While Apple's cleverly designed Spotlight even gives the dictionary definition of pretty much any... |
19 August 2008
09:30 GMT |
 |
|
In the majority of cases, mathematics proved to be, at some point or another, a pain in the neck for each of us. No matter if it's geometry, algebra, trigonometry or whatever other fields math might have, we have all experienced bitter frustration when a problem just could not be solved or properly understood. O... |
31 July 2008
13:19 GMT |
|
|
Music might not have a physical shape, but it is possible to use a mathematical approach see what the shape of music might look like. Florida State University, Yale University and Princeton University researchers Clifton Callender, Ian Quinn and Dmitri Tymoczko respectively have recently demonstrated a technique thro... |
8 May 2008
06:03 GMT |
|
|
Knowing how solid surfaces interact with liquids is often required in domains such as chemical industry or nanotechnology, but so far nobody succeeded to describe these interactions in simple mathematical formulas. Every time scientists tried to explain the phenomenon through experiments in this field, calculations b... |
9 April 2008
05:57 GMT |
|
|
Aztecs may be more famous for their bloody rituals, but they were one of the most advanced civilizations of America, with cities as larger as those of contemporaneous Europe, and formed perhaps the most powerful pre-Columbian empire, comparable only to the Inca. Such a powerful state was possible via a complex organi... |
5 April 2008
05:43 GMT |
|
|
This was one of the most complicated war machines of the antiquity, the main siege machine till the invention of the cannons. But despite its sophistication, the first catapult crafted by the Ancient Greeks did not employ complicated math formulas. Archimedes' theories improved the weapon. "The first catapult in... |
10 October 2007
02:52 GMT |
|
|
We tend to regard the Western World as the cradle of science, but many new findings show the falsity of this concept. Now, it appears that a less famous school of scholars in southwest India is the place where one of the basic principles of modern mathematics was born, three centuries before Newton was credited with ... |
15 August 2007
07:20 GMT |
|
|
Number 1 is very frequently used around the world. That wouldn't be much of a curiosity, if you knew all the fields it appears in. It's the most commonly found figure in groups as disparate as populations, death rates, physical and chemical constants, baseball statistics, the half-lives of radioactive isot... |
11 May 2007
09:57 GMT |
|
|
|
|
