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...inspired lots of middle schoolers to take apart their clock radios. It turns out the PBS host has also inspired a couple of TV executives to try an experiment. The CBS drama Numb3rs, which stars Rob Morrow as an FBI agent and David Krumholtz as his crime-fighting mathematician brother, was sparked by a lecture Nye gave 10 years ago on the subject of turning kids on to math and science. Now the show's creators, husband and wife Nick Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, have enlisted their hero to guest-star Dec. 16 as an engineering professor from the fictional...
...Fermat's Last Theorem The puzzler that stumped the world's greatest mathematical minds for 350 years was finally solved by Princeton's Andrew Wiles -- or was it? Like French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, who claimed to have discovered a marvelous proof he couldn't fit in the margin of his notebook, Wiles has run into a last-minute problem but says he is sure he can resolve...
...their enthusiasm for these sweet discoveries. Beranbaum even asserts that the new sugars can help simplify the art of baking because they add spectacular flavor without requiring complex skills. "For me," marvels Beranbaum, "finding these sugars is like being an astronomer who has discovered a new planet or a mathematician who has solved a new theorem." It's that sweet...
...What really fascinates me about khipu is the use of fiber as a medium for recording important data,” said Brezine, who is a mathematician by training and a weaver by avocation...
Over the past few decades, Gregory Chaitin, a mathematician at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., has been uncovering the distressing reality that much of higher math may be riddled with unprovable truths--that it's really a collection of random facts that are true for no particular reason. And rather than deducing those facts from simple principles, "I'm making the suggestion that mathematics is done more like physics in that you come about things experimentally," he says. "This will still be controversial when I'm dead. It's a major change...