Category Archives: Mathematics in Society

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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Health Physics, Math, and the Monte Carlo Simulation Connection

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Christian Luca

In this post, I would like to discuss a little bit about my background and how it relates to math.  Currently, I am a distance-learning student at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago (but live in Cleveland, Ohio), … 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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Splitting Apartment Rent – A Case of Fair Division

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Stephanie Blanda

Paying rent – it’s an annoyance that many of us have to deal with on a regular basis. But, it’s also a source of interesting mathematics. Splitting rent in an equitable way is a classic problem in fair division, one … 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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