Tag: mathematics
Mathematics: The Scottish Book and How Objects Float – Knowledge
In a café in present-day Lviv, a group of Polish mathematicians collected problems before World War II, many of which are still open. Now at least one thing could be…
James Webb telescope sends new image of galaxy
James Webb telescope sends new image of galaxy Show captionThis handout photo provided by NASA shows a large, pink-blue speckled galaxy resembling a wheel with a small, inner oval. Photo:…
June Huh dropped out of school at 16 – now he got the “Nobel Prize in Mathematics”
Fields Medal June Huh dropped out of school at 16 to write poetry – now he has won the “Nobel Prize in Mathematics” Mathematician June Huh with the Fields Medal…
Mathematics: Fields Medal for Maryna Viazovska – Knowledge
The every four years Fields Medal awarded by the International Mathematical Union, which is endowed with 15,000 Canadian dollars (about 11,000 euros), is also considered the “Nobel prize in mathematics”.…
“Adventures of a mathematician” in the cinema: A film like an equation – culture
How was that again with the theory of relativity? It’s actually quite simple, says Stan and explains it to the beautiful Françoise at a party like this: “Imagine if there…
Mathematics: A problem as old as the pyramids
A British number theorist has succeeded in elegantly proving the so-called Erdős-Graham problem. It is about one of the oldest questions in mathematics. source site
Bundeswehr University: A professor, hardly older than his students
Maximilian Moll, 31, teaches math and computer science at the Bundeswehr University in Neubiberg. He is just as confident with algorithms as he is with magic tricks. But he doesn’t…
Jugend forscht – Shizhe He from Gauting wins at state level – Starnberg
Shizhe He is one of eleven winners. The twelfth grader from the Otto-von-Taube-Gymnasium took first place in Bavaria in this year’s “Jugend forscht” competition in the mathematics and computer science…
Wordle guessing game: AROSE or SOARE?
The Wordle word game has a huge following. Mathematics and linguistics can help to find the terms you are looking for faster – you learn amazing things about our language.…
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer launches a consultation on mathematics
Establishing more math in high school, the question remains unanswered. To decide, the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, launched a consultation committee. The objective will be to “list the remarks”…