Featured Math Tidbit
Sphere Packing Problem
In 1611, after having studies how sailors stack cannonballs, Johannes Kepler began pondering over the most efficient way to pack spheres in a given space. He finally decided on the face-centred cubic, which is the same way you will find oranges stacked today. However, Kepler could not prove that the face-centered cubic was indeed the […]
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Data Scientist
Data scientist/analytics consultant: Data science deals with analyzing extremely large amounts of data. Think of all the data being created on the internet. In 2011, it was estimated that the Library of Congress had collected about 235 terabytes of data. A few years later, Google estimated that the internet holds about 5,000,000 terabytes of data—20,000 […]
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Math in Photography
How does Math relate to beauty, art, and fashion? Jessica Wynne, a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York explored the beauty of math in her most recent project. She took creative photos of chalkboards that were labeled “Do Not Erase.” The results prove that beauty can be found in the most […]