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    Math and Statistics: Relating Math to the Real World

    Math and Statistics: Relating Math to the Real World

    Throughout his life, Hrabowski has loved the intersection of math and language. The challenge of finding clear, simple language to explain complex math problems to others is part of what drove his decision to focus on teaching math. Hrabowski points out that math and statistics provide the tools for not only for engineers and scientists to do their work, but also for physicians, accountants, social scientists, business owners and even university administrators!

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Applied mathematics
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    The Math And Magic of Origami

    The Math And Magic of Origami

    Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Origami -- Mathematics
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    The Beautiful Math of Coral

    The Beautiful Math of Coral

    Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Crocheting Coral reef ecology
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    Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers

    Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers

    From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Mathematics -- Study teaching
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    Video
     
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    The Surprising Math of Cities And Corporations

    The Surprising Math of Cities And Corporations

    Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering and Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Cities towns -- Growth -- Econometric models Sustainable urban development
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    The Beautiful Math Behind The World's Ugliest Music

    The Beautiful Math Behind The World's Ugliest Music

    Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of repetition, using a mathematical concept known as the Costas Array. In this surprisingly entertaining talk, he shares the math behind musical beauty ... and its opposite.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Repetition in music Mathematics Composition (Music)
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    Inside OKCupid: The Math of Online Dating

    Inside OKCupid: The Math of Online Dating

    When two people join a dating website they are matched according to shared interests and how they answer a number of personal questions. But how do sites calculate the likelihood of a successful relationship? Christian Rudder one of the founders of popular dating site OKCupid details the algorithm behind 'hitting it off.'

    Subjects:
    Computing and Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Dating services Computer algorithms Online dating
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    Is Math Discovered or iInvented?

    Is Math Discovered or iInvented?

    Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the world around us, or is math the native language of the universe itself? Jeff Dekofsky traces some famous arguments in this ancient and hotly debated question.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Mathematics -- Philosophy
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    The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

    The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

    Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.

    Subjects:
    Physics
    Keywords:
    Turbulence Starry night (Gogh Vincent van)
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    The Math Behind Basketball's Wildest Moves

    The Math Behind Basketball's Wildest Moves

    Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key plays of the game, to help coaches and players combine intuition with new data. Bonus: What they're learning could help us understand how humans move everywhere.

    Subjects:
    Computing
    Keywords:
    Basketball Sports -- Data processing
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