WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 9, 2005- "Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas" by mathematicians Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird is "irreverent, entertaining, ...
Equations are ordered, elegant mathematical constructs used to describe specific patterns. Can you imagine some formulas depict the very opposite: chaos and randomness? What's more intriguing, they ...
The Abel Prize honouring achievements in mathematics was awarded Wednesday to American Dennis Parnell Sullivan for his contributions to topology, including work on chaos theory, the Norwegian Acade ...
The documentary looks at the modern advances in mathematics and how they affect our understanding of physics economics environmental issues and human psychology as well as how developments in 20th ...