Jan. 14, 1898: Math Just Didn't Add Up for Mr. Dodgson
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Lecturing on mathematics isn't Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's cup of tea. Imagining a world populated by skittish rabbits, hookah-smoking caterpillars and a Red Queen: That's his cup of tea. And maybe that's where he goes after dying on this day.
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This is a math problem that voters or hard drives can&#39;t solve. It sounds so simple, but in the 2004 college football season, three into two won&#39;t go.
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Earth's magnetic field is reportedly about 10 percent weaker today than it was when a German mathematician first started keeping tabs on it in 1845. So should we worry?
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An 'appalling miscalculation' led to the death of a child by a man who drove a coach knowing the brakes were faulty.
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By Jane Bennett Clark Kiplinger's Personal Finance  You're desperate to find a baseball card featuring Oscar Dugey, who played for the Boston Braves in 1914. Your son is equally eager to get rid of last year's five-pound chemistry textbook.
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By Ruth L. Tisdale ruth.tisdale@roanoke.com 981-3149  Nicholas Fraser almost missed it.
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Falls just shy of the magic number -- is it too much yet?
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Mr. Market's got his numbers all screwy on this misunderstood multibagger in the making. Thank you, Mr. M.
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Children who had never been taught addition or subtraction were able to solve approximate math problems involving large numbers, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that reveals a new understanding of children's innate math ability.
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Doctors make the same arithmetic mistakes the rest of us make, but the consequences can be considerably more serious.
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Tycho:  I uploaded the comic early, as many of you noticed.  I entered the wrong number in the update field.  You may also have noticed that the spelling in these posts has really gone to hell.  So, that's numbers and letters.  I hope to one day discover a set of pictograms with which I can manage some baseline fucking proficiency.
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Corrects first paragraph to seventh straight year, not eighth. The same error occurred in an earlier update.
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Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar problems. If they are right - still a big if - and somebody really has cracked the so-called Riemann hypothesis, financial disaster might follow.
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Thanks to moronic inventors, it's now possible to calculate a cosine even if you think "cosine" is a brand of nasal decongestant. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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A mathematical genius who struggled to pass his school exams has outwitted computers by setting a world record for mentally calculating the 13th root of a hundred-digit number.
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Growing profits isn't magic. It's math.
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Science & environment: Bad science: A 1954 book called How to Lie with Statistics reads exactly like this column which I'm about to write on a Daily Telegraph story in 2008