We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Prime numbers (numbers that cannot be divided by anything other than one or themselves) are all around us, hidden everywhere in nature, and some people sense this more than others.
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They behave better – Why don’t more women go into a career in computer science, which is one of the few areas in which there are jobs available? Let’s hope this changes in the future! It’s not that they don’t have the brains for it, it has a lot to do with stereotypes. One GOOD thing about girl geekiness: It cuts down on fights. In recent years, over 25% of adolescent girls participated in a serious fight at school or work, group-against-group fight, or an attack on others with the intent to inflict serious harm.
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More than half a century before the modern mathematical theory called quasicrystal geometry was discovered in the West, Muslim artists were using it to create intricate, non-repeating tile patterns in buildings. These patterns are now known as Penrose tiling, after the quantum physicist Roger Penrose, who only discovered this theory 30 years ago.
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According to a mathematician, the New York Yankees will win 110 games this season, more than any other major league team.
Mathematician Bruce Bukiet of the New Jersey Institute of Technology has used the same computer program for the past 6 years to predict how many games each team will win. He bases his predictions on data which shows how each hitter is likely to perform against each pitcher.
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