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Monday, April 15, 2002 Permanent link to this day
Math and music

Studio 360's theme this week is Numbers, Theorems, Truth. I haven't heard the whole thing, but this piece with Eve Beglarian on the application of math to composing was interesting.


Friday, February 22, 2002 Permanent link to this day
Comic science

In a collaboration network, nodes represent people and links represent some kind of collaborative effort between them: actors appearing the the same movie, scientists co-authoring papers, etc. A group of mathematicians have built a collaboration network based on the Marvel Comic universe where nodes are comic book characters which are joined when the characters appear in the same comic. The relationships are built from the Marvel Chronology Project, which cross references each character with the issues it appears in. The group found that in many ways this network acts similarly to a real-world collaboration network.


Saturday, December 29, 2001 Permanent link to this day

Sunday, December 23, 2001 Permanent link to this day

Wednesday, December 05, 2001 Permanent link to this day
Mersenne found

This is slightly old news, but Gimps has found its 5th Mersenne prime: 2^13,466,917-1.


Friday, November 23, 2001 Permanent link to this day
Cryptography

A five lecture tutorial on Complexity Theory and Cryptography


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