Greatest Jobs: Mathematician

JobsRated.com has come out with a listing of top jobs in America and Mathematician is number 1!

Differential Equations Study Guide … in process

I’ve been asked by a few friends of mine who are in need of a primer on Differential Equations to write up a study guide.  The crazy thing is that I’m not exactly proficient in the subject.  I’m a Game Theory guy.  But, there was a time in my life when Calculus related topics were [...]

New Look

So, it has been a disgustingly long time since any of us have posted here.  Life seems to have gotten in the way as it often can.  But, those dry times are over, as I’m working on a series of posts on both Game theory and a study guide to Differential Equations (mostly as a [...]

Science Data Storage, Google Comes to the Rescue!

The giant just keeps on growing.   Google will now be getting into the Science research field by offering data storage to scientists:
The storage would fill a major need for scientists who want to openly share their data, and would allow citizen scientists access to an unprecedented amount of data to explore. For example, two planned [...]

Happy Birthday Knuth!

Donald Knuth is the guy who invented LaTeX,  and it turns out that today (Thursday, as I write this) is his 70th birthday. For a nice article about him and what he’s done in computer science in addition to inventing , go here, or here, or follow the links they give!
ex animo-
Felicis
Thanks to [...]

Journal Wars: Higher and Higher Prices Fan the Flames of Freedom

OK, I admit that the title to this post engages in extreme excesses of alliteration. But, the alliterative power behind the words is quite real in the world of scientific publishing and the ridiculously high prices journals (the disseminators of new ideas in science) charge.

Basic Math: Dumb as a Monkey

New study shows that even college students can perform as well as monkeys on an arithmetic test.
The results indicate that monkeys perform approximate mental addition in a manner that is remarkably similar to the performance of the college students. These findings support the argument that humans and nonhuman primates share a cognitive system for nonverbal [...]

Open Access Science and Math Journals the Wave of the Future?

I hope so.
From BioMed TV:
More and more biomedical researchers are seeing the benefits of publishing with BioMed Central. Through their support for open access to peer reviewed research, these pioneers are changing the face of biomedical publishing. They are true leaders, and the benefits of open access that they are helping to bring about will [...]

New Analysis and PDE Journal

Terence Tao has joined the editorial board of a new Analysis and PDE journal. If you have any papers that you’re looking to submit, consider this one. Journals in all academic fields are notoriously expensive (read unaccesable), and that serves to be a clog in the arteries of progress. There is a [...]