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Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio

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Dec 21, 2009 | 2.6 / 5 (24) | 8

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel ...

Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model

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Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 2

When bombs and bullets left 37 dead during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan, earlier this month, the insurgency was using the element of surprise. Unpredictability is the hallmark of modern insurgent attacks such as ...

Researcher develops formula that can ID music industry payola

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential ...

Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

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Nov 25, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (36) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of Isčre, entered a competition in heat research sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences. The paper he submitted ...

Biology, training and profit sharing make best traders

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Nov 25, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.

In College Football, Home Field Advantage Often Overestimated

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Nov 24, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

This year, many of college football's biggest rivalry games take place over Thanksgiving weekend. A win earns bragging rights for the year. Visiting teams are often thought to be at a considerable disadvantage, especially ...

The cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed

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Nov 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Applied mathematicians dissected the morphology of the plantain lily (Hosta lancifolia), a characteristic long leaf with a saddle-like arc midsection and closely packed ripples along the edges. The simple ...

Active hearing process in mosquitoes

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Nov 20, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

A mathematical model has explained some of the remarkable features of mosquito hearing. In particular, the male can hear the faintest beats of the female's wings and yet is not deafened by loud noises.

Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Association for Women in Mathematics has named Hannah Alpert, a third-year mathematics major at the University of Chicago, a co-winner of the 2010 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics ...

Putting math problems in proper order

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Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

Mathematics is driven by the quest to solve problems and today the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) announces a new tool to help attack those questions. Research problems can take decades or centuries to answer, with ...

Underground lines that bypass monuments

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Nov 11, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The ...

NJIT prof sees 70 percent chance for Yanks to win the 2009 World Series

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Oct 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NJIT's Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, has computed the probability of the Yankees and Phillies winning the World Series. ...

Heads or tails? It all depends on some key variables

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Oct 20, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (18) | 8

Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition. Only it's not. You can beat the odds. So says a three-person team of Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz researchers. They produced a provocative study that turns conventional ...

Professor calculates a cooler planet

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Oct 20, 2009 | 2.9 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some people fight global warming by driving fuel-efficient cars. Others weatherproof their houses or plant trees. Princeton's René Carmona does math. As the United States and other countries around ...

Mathematics Professor Says Yankees, Dodgers Should Make World Series

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Oct 14, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

With the League Championship Series set to begin tomorrow, NJIT Mathematics Professor Bruce Bukiet has, once again, analyzed the probability of each team winning their post-season series. Bukiet updates his calculations ...

Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model

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Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of Manchester has paved the way for better research into how honey bees choose where to live.

Buried Coins Key to Roman Population Mystery?

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Oct 05, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (14) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first century BC in Italy was culturally a brilliant age, unequaled by any other period in Roman history. It was a time of Cicero, Caesar, Vergil, Horace and many other major literary ...

Study: Why the best soccer teams don't always win

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Oct 01, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (11) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study, published in the October edition of the Journal of Applied Statistics, looked at soccer as being an experiment to determine which of two teams is superior, but their analys ...