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Heads or tails? It all depends on some key variables

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 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 ...


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Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 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.


Professor calculates a cooler planet

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 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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created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 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 ...


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

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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. ...



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