Mathematics

...at 63 percent. Mitt Romney's 60." But rather than use an appropriate bar chart, the accompanying graphic displayed a pie chart. Mathematically, pie charts have to total 100 percent. FOX's pie figures add up to 193 percent. We know...

In this article: Math, Sarah Palin, Oprah Winfrey, Respondent, Chicago, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee

...web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California. "The protoblogger." One...

In this article: Posterous, Tumblr, Twitter, RSS, WordPress, Dave Winer, and Netscape

...latest masterpiece, it takes awhile to get into, but once you do, you can't put it down. A "hard" SF novel that takes its science and mathematics seriously, and leaves you with ideas and thoughts that don't readily leave your mind. Buy...

In this article: Scary Go Round, Robert Jordan, and Charles Platt

A Marietta woman who studied microbiology in Antarctica is one of 32 Rhodes Scholars. Courtesy of Grace Tiao Grace Tiao will study mathematics and statistics at the University of Oxford in England under the Rhodes program. Grace Tiao,...

In this article: Rhodes scholars, Harvard College, Cecil Rhodes, Antarctica, Wheeler High School, University of Oxford, and Oxford

...fast in Communist capitals, where the official media was never believed. One circulating around Prague was that the prone body was a mathematics student, Martin Smid. It was spread mainly by the dissident activist Peter Uhl, normally a...

In this article: Communism, Prague, and Vaclav Havel

...to the Galileo museum. Galileo, born in Pisa in 1564, is considered one of the fathers of modern science due to his studies in physics, mathematics and particularly astronomy, where he led great advances in developing the telescope. His...

In this article: Galileo Galilei, Physics, Catholic church, Michelangelo, Italy, and Pisa

...professor at the University of California at Berkeley, who has devoted his career to math education, has suggested that teaching mathematics is so difficult that schools should consider having specialized mathematics teachers beginning...

In this article: Human, Singapore, University of Virginia, and University of California at Berkeley

...Pharmaceuticals, Education, Awards, Children-related News, Corporate Social Responsibility, Not For Profit Materials Science and Mathematics Research Honored at Nation's Premier High School Science Competition 2009 Siemens Competition...

In this article: The University of Texas, Austin, and Chemistry

...is a Science Olympiad participant and active member of Quizbowl. He participated in several mathematics competitions before, and also attended the USA Mathematical Olympiad program in the ninth grade. His favorite subjects to study in school...

In this article: Geminin, University of Notre Dame, Detroit Country Day School, and American Cancer Society

...dismantling of the Mathematics Library. The Mathematics Department at the University Iowa has the dual mission of mathematics teaching and mathematics research. It is nationally and internationally recognized that the existence of an in-house...

In this article: University of Iowa and Physics