Those readers in the New York City area might like to pay a visit to NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Its museum is currently displaying an exhibit of Babylonian mathematical artifacts, gleaned from the collections of Columbia University, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, dated from 1900 to 1700 BCE. The . . . → Read More: NYU’s treasure of Babylonian mathematics
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On 9 Nov 2010, the New York Times ran an interesting online feature “What’s Next in Science?”. This series of article includes predictions from a number of scientists in different fields as to what they believe will be the most significant developments of the next few years. One of these articles is by Steven Strogatz . . . → Read More: What’s next in science? The Fourth International Workshop on Symbolic-Numeric Computation (SNC2011) will be held on 7-9 June 2011 in San Jose, California. Invited speakers include Jonathan Borwein (one of the bloggers on this site), James Demmel (an expert in numerical analysis and linear algebra at UC Berkeley) and Stephen Watt (an expert in symbolic computing at the University . . . → Read More: Workshop on symbolic-numeric computation |
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