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Prime Number Discovery at UCLA

Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Technology and Science | No Comments »

This news item will interest a select few. There has been a discovery at UCLA of a huge prime number: Read more..

How Gambling Theory Applies to New Orleans

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Business, Opinion, Politics and Government | No Comments »

In 2003, a mathematics student speculated that, with a laptop and a simple statistical program, it would be possible to win at least a million dollars in Las Vegas in ... Read more..

Math Teachers Receive A Bad Grade

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Personal Skills, Technology and Science | No Comments »

Some of us were lucky and some of us were not as fortunate. The lucky ones encountered a teacher in the early grades who made arithmetic interesting and fun. ... Read more..

Unit Fractions

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Technology and Science | No Comments »

Mathematics is a subject that most people dread, and will avoid at all costs after high school. However, there are times in life when math is useful and needed. ... Read more..