Summing It Up Giveaway Winner
June 22, 2016
General
Congratulations to Trevor H. of Australia, for winning our first Math Blog giveaway. 400 entries were received; not a bad turnout at all, if I may say so myself. I’m …
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GIVEAWAY: Enter to win a copy of Summing It Up
June 15, 2016
Suggested Reading
Princeton University Press recently published a great book called, Summing It Up: From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory by Prof. Avner Ash and Prof. Robert Gross. This week …
Solomon Golomb’s Legacy
June 8, 2016
Math News
Last month, the mathematics and tech communities lost a giant. Solomon Golomb’s discoveries in polynomials led to technology behind some of the most used devices society depends on today. …
May 2016 Noteworthy Math Books
June 1, 2016
Suggested Reading
It’s hard to believe that a month has already passed since April’s edition of this new math book series. I received good feedback on that first post (elsewhere, not …
Math Blog’s Survey Results
May 25, 2016
General
Last week I solicited your feedback via a quick survey. Today I’m sharing the aggregated, non-identifiable information with you. It should give us a better picture of this community. …
Perform Statistical Analysis Directly from Your Browser
May 11, 2016
Probability and Statistics
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. Naturally, …
April 2016 Noteworthy Math Books
May 4, 2016
Suggested Reading
One of the advantages of running a new book notification service like Any New Books is that I come across a lot of exciting math books that have just …
The Princeton Companion Is Back. Sort Of.
April 27, 2016
Suggested Reading
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 book …
An Introduction to Mathematica
March 16, 2015
General
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, provided …
Mathematicians take this survey about your philosophical intuitions
July 20, 2014
General
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 is …