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The Most Colorful Math of All
- Believe it or not, coloring is a profound mathematical topic with many multi-million-dollar industrial applications. The problem presented here has been of interest to mathematicians for over a hundred years. Some versions of the problem are easy to solv...
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Why there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics
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- Six Nobel Prizes are awarded each year, one in each of the following categories: literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, and physiology & medicine. Notably absent from this list is an award for Mathematics. The reason for this conspicuous om...
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Home of the CANADA/USA Mathcamp
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- Description: CANADA/USA Mathcamps is a summer camp for mathematically talented high school students. We are now accepting applications for Mathcamp 2004; see how to apply for more details, including the new online application system. Mathcamp 2004 will be...
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Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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- Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by
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Al-Khwarizmi (Algorizm, Algorithm), 770-840 C.E.
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- One of the greatest mathematicians ever lived. Founder of Algebra, Algorithm, Calculus, and other basic concepts in mathematics.
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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
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- Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. The mathematicians considered in the last chapter commenced the creation of those processes which distinguish modern mathematics....
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The Measurers
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- 'The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century' was a Special Exhibition displayed at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford during 1995. The exhibition was centered around a very unusual and important painting in the Muse...
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