One of the coolest projects I work on at IBM is called the Data Scientist Workbench. It’s a free all-in-one solution for people interested in performing data analysis.…
Several years ago (wow, it was 2008 – how time flies!), I wrote about The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. At the time I dubbed it, “the nicest math…
From the Beginning… Originally, Wolfram’s programing language was utilized primarily by mathematicians to solve complex equations and design advanced mathematical models. Mathematica, as the language was first called,…
A group of researchers in philosophy, psychology and mathematics are requesting the assistance of the mathematical community by participating in a survey about mathematicians’ philosophical intuitions. The survey…
The following is a list of 46 interesting math books that were released in 2011. As some of you know, I run a service called Any New Books?,…
singingbanana released an interesting video about the odds of flipping 10 heads in a row. It is basic probability and the video is entertaining enough to warrant sharing…
There is a new online initiative called We Use Math, which is meant to address and answer one of the most common questions that high school students have:…
We’d love to hear from you about how we’re doing and what we can do to improve things here at Math Blog. We’d also like to learn a…
The other day I received a math book that’s geared towards children. It’s called “You Can Count On Monsters” (USA | UK | Canada) by Professor Richard Evan…
The following is a guest post by Stephen Weimar (Director of the Math Forum) and Valerie Klein (Professional Collaboration Leader) from Drexel University. Recent economic hardships have demonstrated…
A couple of days ago we asked you to tell us about your favorite math book. Now that the results are in, we must say that while some…
Let’s do a small experiment. I’m not sure what the outcome will be, but definitely think it’s worth a shot no matter what. Using this link you can…
