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The Pursuit of Beauty – Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery

Doug Reports Posted on January 30, 2015 by dougJanuary 30, 2015

What an amazing article from the New Yorker about a fascinating man and a mathematical proof he found. It’s on the long side, but I was completely transfixed reading it. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_012815_Daily&CNDID=19822210&spMailingID=7458313&spUserID=NDY3NjA5MDA2MzIS1&spJobID=603416612&spReportId=NjAzNDE2NjEyS0  

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Nearly 1/4th of Japanese college students missed this elementary school math question – what about you?

Doug Reports Posted on February 26, 2012 by dougFebruary 26, 2012

The multiple-choice question asked was this: What can be inferred from a sentence stating that the average height of 100 students is 163.5 cm? (1) The total height of the 100 students is 16,350 cm. (2) Students whose height are around 163.5 … Continue reading →

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If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula

Doug Reports Posted on September 19, 2011 by dougJune 25, 2012
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