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Category Archives: Mathematics

Calculate the Golden Mean with Phiculator

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Phiculator, the Golden Ratio calculator
Phi, the Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio, the golden section, the golden mean, the divine proportion. It‚Äôs known as many things, but the ratio they all refer to is the same, 1 : 1.61803399…
Found in art, architecture, design, and most intriguingly, in nature, this ratio has been used throughout history and [...]

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The Mathematics of Love

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

From Netsurf.com:
In an intriguing interview, psychologist John Gottman talks about the mathematics of relationships. He and Bob Levenson discovered in a eureka moment that they could accurately predict the progress of a relationship by observing a couple’s behavior and briefly interviewing them. More recently, Gottman has worked with mathematician James Murray to quantify this observational [...]

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Abelard.org just keeps getting better

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

The site has recently added a Tech section, has some beautiful photos, keeps putting out superb position documents, briefings, primers and news analysis. Here are two recent samples:
Selections from Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi’s speech to Congress and President Bush’s speech recent speech the UN.
and this from the excellent Behaviour section of the site
The size of [...]

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Numerical Literacy expert John Allen Paulos on the power of swing voters [Guardian]

Monday, August 23, 2004

“Voters look to their neighbours to determine their decision. John Allen Paulos explains why a few swing states of borderline electors will settle the US presidency”
In recent years the US electorate has become highly polarised. Large contiguous regions of the country (the red states) favour the Republicans, other large contiguous regions favour the Democrats (the [...]

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You have heard about it for years..

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

…that factoid about only being able to remember between 5 and 7 numbers? Many have heard of the “fact” but few know much about what it is about. Here is your chance to read the ORIGINAL, fascinating paper
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information
by George [...]

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