Category Archives: Math in Pop Culture

The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Stephanie Blanda

What do Leonard Nimoy, Stana Katic, and Robert Downey Jr. have in common? They all have a Bacon number of 2. The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, a game created early in 1994 by three Albright College students, is a … Continue reading →

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Mathematics: The Bottleneck

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Tyler Clark

I recently read an article by Bryna Kra in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Mathemetics: 1,000 Years Old and Still Hot.” It is such a great article, I at first was not sure what more I could write. Kra … Continue reading →

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The Erdős–Gyárfás Conjecture

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Avery Carr

Curiosity is a guiding light down the dark corridors of mathematical wonderment. With each turn, enlightenment protrudes from the ruble of faulty understanding into the illumination of new knowledge. With this analogy in mind, mathematics can aptly be described as … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Mysteries

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Maya Sharma

It’s always fun when things you like intersect, especially when math is involved! One of my favorite shows is CBS’s Elementary, so I was very excited when earlier this month there was a math-themed episode. In the second episode of … Continue reading →

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Numerosity – Sixth Sense?

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Tyler Clark

A study that appeared in Science magazine on Sept 6, 2013 entitled Topographic Representation of Numerosity in the Human Parietal Cortex discusses the possibility that the ability to understand the quantity of a small group of visual objects without counting … Continue reading →

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