Yesterday, my COS 125 Introductory Programming Class had a very successful Game Exhibition. We received TV time from two stations. You can view: http://www.wabi.tv/news/36033/students-get-competitve-in-orono-at-umaine-expo and http://www.foxbangor.com/news/local-news/329-umaine-students-develop-original-video-games.html to see the event.
Tom DeMark’s Numerology Lures Investors; ‘Wielding Thor’s Hammer’ – Businessweek. “There’s a golden ratio mania, and most of it isn’t based on any kind of fact,” says George Markowsky, a computer science professor at the University of Maine, who … Continue reading
Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Colloquium / Pizza Pi. Prof. Ben Weiss, Bates College “Arithmetic Dynamics and Sarkovskii’s Theorem” 421 Neville Hall. Pizza at 12:15, lecture from 12:30-1:20pm. Given a function f(x), and a number A, what does the orbit {A, … Continue reading
The Opinion Pages ME, MYSELF AND MATH September 24, 2012, 9:00 PM103 Comments Proportion Control By STEVEN STROGATZ Me, Myself and Math, a six-part series by Steven Strogatz, looks at us through the lens of math. TAGS: ‘THE DAVINCI CODE’, EUCLID,GEOMETRY, GOLDEN RATIO,PROPORTIONS No … Continue reading
2:10-3 PM, Wednesday September 5, 2012 Room 336, Boardman Hall Cases of Spatial, Spatio-temporal and Temporal-spatial Analysis Presenter: Dr. Sytze de Bruin, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands Abstract: Including the temporal dimension in spatial analysis often considerably affects computational complexity and … Continue reading
I get to comment on the use of the Golden Ratio in the self-proclaimed Da Vinci Diet. This segment appeared on the NBC Nightly News a few years back. You can view the video at http://youtu.be/bqsnw1va3xE.
On April 28, 2004, Seymour Papert and Robin Jettinghoff gave a presentation at the University of Maine on some materials that they prepared for helping students understand mathematics. You can find the video at http://youtu.be/4iIqLc0sjjs.