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Recent Data For Planning Mathe...
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John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Jan 19th, 2012
This article is a follow up to the previous article Estimating the Cost and Schedule of Mathematical Software. In the previous article, the author advocated using software engineering expert Barry Boehm’s Basic COCOMO Embedded Mode cost model to estimate the...
Estimating the Cost and Schedu...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Jan 10th, 2012
Mathematics and mathematical software combined with today’s powerful computers can deliver large improvements in speed and efficiency as well as new useful features. Mathematical software is in widespread use: digital video such as YouTube and Skype, digital...
A Big List of Interesting Math...
Posted by
Antonio Cangiano on
Dec 16th, 2011
The following is a list of 46 interesting math books that were released in 2011.
As some of you know, I run a service called Any New Books?, which emails you a list of new books that are related to the categories of your choice each week. For the most part I pulled...
Animations of a Possible Cure ...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Oct 31st, 2011
This article is the third in a series on possible ways to use mathematics to cure or treat cancer, that began with Can Mathematics Cure Cancer?. It presents the Bathtub Mechanism, a possible way to kill cells with abnormal numbers of chromosomes, a common...
Tackling Cancer with Math...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Oct 7th, 2011
The recent death of Apple founder Steve Jobs from pancreatic cancer at the young age of fifty-six highlights the dismal progress in the War on Cancer, despite over $200 billion, over one million published research papers, and the efforts of hundreds of thousands of...
The Cold Hit Problem...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Sep 25th, 2011
The previous article Are Fingerprints Unique? discussed the case of Brandon Mayfield, a Muslim American attorney from the Portland, Oregon area who was wrongly identified as one of the Madrid train bombers in 2004 by the FBI based on an erroneous fingerprint...
Start Your Own Blog About Math...
Posted by
Antonio Cangiano on
Sep 21st, 2011
We don’t usually include off-topic posts here, but I feel this may interest some of our readers, plus it’s a shameless plug as well.
If you’ve always wanted to start your own technical blog, perhaps about a mathematical or scientific topic, but never got around...