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Math in the Media
- The Futurama Theorem: A prime example of Math showing up in a TV Show (and not the first time Futurama has done so).
- Tom Lehrer : Tom Lehrer, mathematician and comedian, wrote many comical songs involving Mathematics (you may know him for the song ‘The Elements’) including this linked song – though there are many others: ‘Wernher von Braun’, ‘Lobachevsky’ , ‘Poisoning Pigeons in the Park’ , etc.
- Numb3rs: The Mathematics of behind the TV show Numb3rs.
- Making $100,000 with Math: An example where students used basic Probability to earn over $100,000 in a week.
Interesting Applications of Mathematics
- Wolfram Demonstrations: Where Mathematics meets Computer Science – using Mathematica to visualize everything from MRI scans to Gröbner bases.
- Internet Map: Interesting use of Graph Theory to ‘map’ the internet.
Interesting Mathematical Papers/Articles
- What is Advanced Math Like?: A nice answer posted to the question on Quora , “What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?”. This is the nice TeX version of the answer written up by Daniel Miller .
Mathematical Miscellanies
- The Proof is Trivial: A machine to help you prove theorems when stuck. If it does not solve the problem, trying refreshing the page.
- Mathgen: Randomly generated mathematics research papers.
- The Game of Life: A fun applet to play Conway’s Game of Life.
- Graduate Text: What graduate text are you? (I am Serre’s, A Course in Arithmetic.)