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Best Gaga Parody Ever: I Derive This Way

By C.G. | Published: May 23, 2011

Students from Streetsboro High School in Ohio created a math inspired “Born This Way” parody that rivals what “Weird Al” Yankovich wrote. This has to be one of the best versions I’ve ever heard. Ignore the high school AV club style special effects but read the lyrics and get your inner math geek on. via [...]

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Prime Year

By C.G. | Published: January 1, 2011

Apparently 2011 is a prime number. Prime numbers are any positive whole number that can only be divided by itself and the number 1. Not only is 2011 a prime number but the sum of 11 consecutive prime numbers. Cool, huh? 2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211 via @giuliodeluise and @tcarmody

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Using Math to Analize Chaos in Crowds

By C.G. | Published: August 24, 2010

Interesting research coming from Manchester University where they were able to predict crush conditions in chaotic crowd situations like the fire in a Rhode Island nightclub that killed 96. Scientists are very convinced the fire did not kill the majority of patrons that night and used the data from that night to help determine how [...]

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Everything You Know (About Math) Is Wrong

By C.G. | Published: August 19, 2010

So apparently, the basic rules of arithmetic might be wrong and there’s no way to “fix” them. And I thought I was just bad at math when I was younger… it turns out, I was just proving to my teachers that they were wrong all along. :-/ To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save [...]

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