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GATE Mechanical Engineering Mock Test Question - 0 views

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    High difficulty level Mechanical Engineering question that has high probability of appearing in your GATE exam on 15 - 16 February 2014.
Garrett Eastman

Wollstonecraft by Airship Ambassador - Kickstarter - 2 views

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    A Kickstarter project for a children's math and science-oriented detective story: "This is the made up story about two very real girls - Ada, the world's first computer programmer, and Mary, the world's first science fiction author - caught up in a steampunk world of hot-air balloons and steam engines, jewel thieves and mechanical contraptions. For readers 8-12. "This is a pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief. Ada and Mary encounter real historical characters, such as Percy Shelley, Charles Babbage, Michael Faraday, and Charles Dickens - people whom the girls actually knew. If Jane Austen wrote about zeppelins and brass goggles, this would be the book."
Roland O'Daniel

Eureqa | Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory - 3 views

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    s a software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data. Its primary goal is to identify the simplest mathematical formulas which could describe the underlying mechanisms that produced the data. Eureqa is free to download and use.
Garrett Eastman

Mathematics Emerging: A Sourcebook 1540 - 1900, Jacqueline Stedall - 4 views

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    "This book is designed to provide mathematics undergraduates with some historical background to the material that is now taught universally to students in their final years at school and the first years at college or university: the core subjects of calculus, analysis, and abstract algebra, along with others such as mechanics, probability, and number theory. All of these evolved into their present form in a relatively limited area of western Europe from the mid sixteenth century onwards, and it is there that we find the major writings that relate in a recognizable way to contemporary mathematics."
Garrett Eastman

Levi, M.: The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems. - 7 views

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    Well received book on using physics to demonstrate mathematical concepts by Mark Levi, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University
Garrett Eastman

The maths that made Voyager possible - 6 views

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    "Nasa's Voyager spacecraft have enthralled everyone with their exploits on the edge of the Solar System, but their launch in 1977 was only possible because of some clever maths and the persistence of a PhD student who worked out how to slingshot probes into deep space".
Darren Kuropatwa

The UK needs a revolution in the way maths is taught. Here's why… | Education... - 7 views

  • We have confused rigour at hand-calculating with rigour for the wider problem-solving subject of maths – the necessary hand mechanics of past moments with the enduring essence of maths.
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      Well summarized important point made here.
  • An example I like to give is to pick up my iPhone, activate its Siri voice recognition and say: "Solve x cubed plus 2x plus one equals zero."
    • Darren Kuropatwa
       
      Do all students have access to this kind of technology? Do we have different learning goals for students in different learning environments?
Garrett Eastman

Measuring hell - The Boston Globe - 7 views

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    Mount Holyoke physics professor Mark Peterson argues that Galileo's applications of mathematics to Dante's Inferno laid the groundwork for his later discoveries (to be expanded on in a forthcoming book: ""Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts" )
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