Why is mathematics important? This seems a strange question to ask, for the importance of math has been recognized since the beginning of civilizations. Perhaps this question is still relevant today because many of today’s youths appear to decry the…
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Radian is a way to measure angles very similar to degrees. It is a way to measure angles using their radius as a standard unit. A certain angle would be measured in the length of the arc divided by the…
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Many people are confused to people referring to mathematics as a science. When the word science is mentioned, most people think about people wearing large white lab coats and mixing mysterious liquids of unknown properties and huge explosions soon following,…
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Statistics are everywhere. Every newspaper and every news bulletin is full of them. They form the backbone of countless amounts of articles. It seems that for a piece of analysis to have any credibility whatsoever, it needs statistics. But how…
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Maybe you’re an avid traveler. Maybe you’ve tried to order a Big Mac combo in English in Quebec. Maybe you’re just a student that makes his way around this multicultural campus enough. One way or the other, you know that…
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Introductory Statistical Analysis – “t-test” A t-test is a statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant correlation between two sets of data. It works by first formulating a null hypothesis and then running the t-test, and in…
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So its safe to assume nearly everyone has heard students ask “Well when am I actually going to use this?” in reference to math and other school subjects. Well let us examine just how math is used in the “real…
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Galileo summed it all up when he concluded “Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has created the universe.” Sounds complicated? Well, math isn’t. Have you ever tried to get through one day without using math? How about an hour?…
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Albanian mathematician Fioralba Cakoni is currently an associate professor at the University of Delaware. Her research involves direct and inverse problems in acoustic, electromagnetic, and elastic scattering and wave propagation. She also studies boundary value problems. Dr. Cakoni’s work has…
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The Pythagorean Theorem is an important and essential topic to understand in mathematics. Without it, many mathematicians would be in the dark about the properties of triangles. The theorem is so important, it is useful in almost all the different…
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