Hello, everyone! Here are this week's blog Roundup.
My new blog, play with Mathematica, it is good. In only a week has received 45 blog subscribers and 1000 page views. Plus, I got off to a good number of comments and participation from Mathematica wizards. There are three interactive notebooks on site. My goal is to have two new laptops each week. Come check it out.
Oxford University Press sent me a review copy of the revised and updated version of their book, The number sense of Stanislas Dehaene.
Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthrough of scientists throughout the world. In this sense, Stanislas Dehaene number now, offers a fascinating look at this recent research into an enlightening exploration of mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with awareness-raising discovery, animals – including rats, pigeons, raccoons and chimpanzees – can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also has a rudimentary sense of number. Dehaene suggests that this vestigial number sense is as basic as the brain understands world as our perception of colors or objects in space, and like those other abilities, our number sense is wired in the brain.
I have not had a chance to read it, but I see that the old version has a number of reviews on Amazon, and nearly every single is four or five stars. (The updated version is also new've many reviews).
Sue on Math Mama writes introduces www.pmathpickle.com a site I am enthusiastic to learn about. What I especially on the Web site is that it contains unlimited math problems that children can relate to and professional mathematics can try to crack. I need to use some of the activities on my Math gatherings, where I make it a point only examine ideas, children and adults together in the same room can enjoy. Read Sue article link to the archive in an interview with the author of the site.
Gary Davis on Republic of mathematics has a nice exploration in the allocation of powers of 2.0 's There are some nice-looking Mathematica graphs in the article.
Dan at Math4love writes about an amazing small subtraction games, small children can play and enjoy and that adults are able to also.
Here is a phenomenal lesson, available to every child who understand to subtract, and convincing for all, up to and including the professional mathematicians. Get a kid engaged in it, and they will make hundreds of subtraction problems without complaint, because it helps them solve an honest mathematical mystery.
Patrick on Math jokes 4 Mathy people share some of his favorite Math counts problems. Some of them are quite challenging, and they are for middle school students.
Journal of Marketing Research has a very interesting article about the influence of numbers in names of products placed on the market.
A series of experiments, documents numbers influence on taste of marks. For example, contains an imaginary brand name for anti-dandruff shampoo (zinc) are more wanted when it contains a common product number (e.g. zinc 24) than when with a prime number (e.g. zinc 31). Research also shows that the presence of the operands is responsible for the sum or product further reinforce the taste of a trade mark. For example, not only is a Volvo S12 more desire than a Volvo S29, but taste is further strengthened when an ad for a Volvo S12 contains a number plate with the numbers 2 and 6. Operands 2 and 6 make 12 more familiar, since they encourage during deliberate generation of number 12.
Hat tip to Pat.
Finally, to your video entertainment is here a great video of all kinds of interesting mathematical objects, some of which seem easy to do.
Hat tip to Xah Lee.
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