Mike's Math

"My name's Mike Byster, and according to psychologists … I have one of the fastest mathematical minds in the world."

This is what Mike Byster told students at his "Mike's Math" seminars, and he wasn't exaggerating.

Mike Byster is a math teacher, but he's also a human calculator. He can answer complex math problems in front of his students instantaneously: Miss Lewis: "999 divides by 56?" Byster: "That equals 17.83928571."

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International Mathematical Olympiad 2007, Hanoi-Vietnam

The International Mathematical Olympiad is an annual mathematical Olympiad for high school students, and every year it is hosted by a different country. Some countries have been the host nation for more than 1 time as Romania, USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, United Kingdom, USA. The year 2007 marks the first time that Vietnam was the host country for the IMO - the 48th International Mathematical Olympiad, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-31 July, 2007.

Periodic Table of Mathematicians

The Periodic Table of Mathematicians is a collection of facts on various mathematicians put in a periodic table format.

Math Genius Wins University Place, Aged 9

A nine-year-old math prodigy was Thursday admitted to a Hong Kong university, telling reporters he struggled to communicate academically with his own age group.

March Boedihardjo, an Indonesian-Chinese boy resident in Hong Kong, earlier this month gained two grade As and a B in his A-levels -- normally taken by 18-year-olds -- enough for a place at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU).

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Arabic Geometry

Catnaps.org has an interesting article on Arabic geometrical patterns.

Mind and Visual Puzzles

Archimedes' Laboratory provides puzzles, brain teasers, and mental activities to keep your brain young and active.

EquationSheet.com

EquationSheet.com allows you to create a customized equation sheet from various mathematics and physical equations and constants.

The Coq Proof Assistant

Coq is a formal proof management system: a proof done with Coq is mechanically checked by the machine. In particular, Coq allows:

• to define functions or predicates,
• to state mathematical theorems and software specifications,
• to develop interactively formal proofs of these theorems,
• to check these proofs by a relatively small certification "kernel".

The Human Geometry

The Human Geometry Project celebrates mathematical art, music, dance and literature through exploration of the human form. And for more risqué pictures, visit Naked Geometry.

Mapping A Medusa: The Internet Spreads Its Tentacles

CHARTING A COURSE. A new map of the Internet shows a core containing the most tightly connected subnetworks (red), while the least-connected subnetworks lie at the edge (purple).
After enlisting the help of thousands of volunteers to track how digital information weaves around the world, researchers can offer a new simile: The Internet is like a medusa jellyfish. It has a dense core surrounded by a highly connected body, from which tentacles dangle.

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Gato (Graph Animation Toolbox)

Gato - the Graph Animation Toolbox - is a software which visualizes algorithms on graphs. Graphs are mathematical objects consisting of vertices and edges connecting pairs of vertices: think of cities as vertices and interstates as edges connecting two cities. Algorithms might find a shortest path - the fastest route - or a minimal spanning tree or solve one of other interesting problems on graphs: maximal-flow, weighted and non-weighted matching and min-cost flow. Visualisation means linking cause - the statements of an algorithm - immediately to an effect - changes to the graph the algorithm has as its input - by terms of blinking, changing colors and other visual effects.

Galaxy Zoo

Welcome to GalaxyZoo, the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking part, you'll not only be contributing to scientific research, but you'll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of the glorious diversity of galaxies that pepper the sky.

Minimal Primes

Jeffrey Shallit wrote a very interesting paper on minimal primes. The PostScript file can be downloaded here.

To print, you can use the free Windows printing utility PrintFile.

ZipCode Census Dashboard

The ZipCode Census Dashboard is a flash application that displays U.S. census statistics.

NASA MathTrax

MathTrax is a graphing tool for middle school and high school students to graph equations, physics simulations or plot data files. The graphs have descriptions and sound so you can hear and read about the graph. Blind and low vision users can access visual math data and graph or experiment with equations and datasets.

Mathematical Visualization Toolkit

The Department of Applied Mathematics in the University of Colorado at Boulder provides an interesting Mathematical Visualization Toolkit for visual learning of Calculus and Differential Equations by students.

DPGraph + Viewer

Although the website is terrible, DPGraph is actually a very neat graphing application.

World Stats Clock

Everything Mathematical

MathematiciansPictures.com is a website about everything mathematical (pictures, t-shirts, etc.). If you're into math, you wouldn't be here otherwise, then visit that site for some neat stuff. Just come back afterwards. :-)

E-Tutor Graphing Calculator

E-Tutor has a nice, online, graphing calculator for visualizing equations.