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• The Summit of Math Education: Statistics, not Calculus

  June 29, 2009 in Logic/Math, Statistics

  The following TED video, given by mathemagician and professor Arthur Benjamin (about whom I’ve previously blogged about here), embodies the best idea I’ve heard about math education in a LONG time. Perhaps ever. Just as I recently posted about how games like backgammon embody the 21st century in replacement of games like chess for the [...]

• Game Theory, Money, and Rationality

  June 29, 2009 in Games

  Ars Technica has an interesting article today about a paper about to be released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) about variations to an experiment in Game Theory called the Ultamatum Game. As the Ars article explains,
  The basic rules of the Ultimatum Game are simple. One person is given a stack [...]

• Backgammon and the 21st Century

  June 24, 2009 in Logic/Math

  In 1997, chess champion Gary Kasparov was beaten in a 6-point match against a computer. It was the first time this had ever happened. The computer, named Deep Blue, was developed by IBM after some Carnegie Mellon University graduates joined the company. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the hardware computing power of Deep [...]

• Flickr: Mathematics Photos

  June 23, 2009 in Art

  As an artistic diversion, I decided to search Flickr for the words “mathematics”, “math”, and “probability” on Creative Commons licensed photographs. The results were wonderful. Some of my favorites are below. Click on the photos to see explanations from the authors or to see more of their work!

  Klein bottle (procrastination), by Pragmagraphr
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  Love & Mathematics, by [...]

• Resume Writing Tips

  June 20, 2009 in Editorial

  I’ve spent some time over the last week looking at resumes. I’ve had about 100 or so cross my email inbox from a variety of job posting sites, and I was reminded of a few quirks that people tend to fall into that are not at all helpful for getting yourself a job. I’ve been [...]