Friday the 13th: Your luck is about to change Nov 14, 2009
" Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest. 5. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen. Pythagorean legacy Meanwhile the belief that numbers are connected to life and physical things called... (MSNBC -- Environment)
Computer Ratings, The BCS And Boise State Aug 28, 2009
If you aspire to work for NASA someday, or you like to spend your evenings reading the works of Einstein, Tesla, or Pythagoras, you might enjoy reading Colley Matrixs dissertation on how to best rank college football teams. Otherwise, you can simply take the poll creators word for it that theyve got a well-run system and that the factors they use are all that are needed. (BroncoCountry.com)
Michael Farber moves closer to solving windmill mystery Jun 21, 2009
Earlier this week, Farber warned his team to brush up on their Pythagoras theorem if they wanted to keep up with the students. If you dare to risk your math skills, he warned. (Cape Codder, MA)
A new crop of books in 'An Orchard Invisible,' 'Wicked Plants' and 'Summer World' May 17, 2009
In one paragraph Silvertown will tell you about how plant poisons affect different populations of people, and in the next you're learning that Pythagoras didn't eat beans. A discussion of seed dispersal begins with a note about paper airplane design. (Boston Globe)
We're at the center of the universe - unless we're not Apr 19, 2009
Pythagoras didn't invent the theorem that bears his name, for example, and Einstein didn't want special relativity called "relativity.". Even if you already know the science Potter surveys, his speed and style will keep you reading. (Boston Globe)
Five facts about Friday the 13th Mar 13, 2009
"You can trace it all the way from the followers of Pythagoras, whose maxim to describe the universe was 'all is number,'" says Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and author of "The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved" (Simon & Schuster, 2005). Thinkers who studied under the famous Greek mathematician combined numbers in different ways to explain everything around them, Livio said. (MSNBC -- Technology)
