Source: BBC News Mohammad al-Mir, 13, has won three world titles for his super fast maths skills. The Lebanese teenager’s talents have earned him three world junior titles, beating competitors from 40 countries. Original Source
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Source: Mother Jones By Katie Rose Quandt On Wednesday, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman in 78 years to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, considered the highest honor in mathematics. She was selected for “stunning advances in the theory of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.” The Fields Medal […]
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Season one, the sixth episode My Commentary on the documentary Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There used to be a “holy man” […]
Source: NPR The mathematics problem he solved had been lingering since 1637 — and he first read about it when he was just 10 years old. This week, British professor […]
Source: BBC Art and mathematics. For many, this would appear to be synonymous with chalk and cheese. One is the domain of emotional expression, passion and aesthetics. The other, a […]
Source: BBC There is a lot of beauty in mathematical equations. They represent some of the most profound rules that govern the Universe and everything in it. Understanding the most […]
Source: BBC India’s space programme has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed – by sending an operational mission to Mars. The Mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be […]
Source: BBC India’s space programme has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed – by sending an operational mission to Mars. The Mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be […]
Maryam Mirzakhani, a Professor at Stanford, was one of four winners honored Wednesday at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul. She was honored in 2014 and she died of […]
theguardian — Students should be allowed to use computers to solve problems in class and in exams, according to one education expert ‘In the UK why do we introduce coding in primary schools but ban calculators? Instead, why not allow pupils to solve problems using computers in class and […]
Epigraph: And He it is who created the heavens and the earth in accordance with the requirements of wisdom and the Truth; and the day He says, ‘Be!’, it will […]
Epigraph: Blessed is He (Allah) in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things; … Who has created seven heavens in harmony. No incongruity canst thou see […]
Source: Muslim Sunrise Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Taj Mahal in India, is a symbol of the Muslim heritage, built in 1632 – […]
LUMS: The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) is proud to announce its campaign to create an Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS and encourages all to contribute to it generously […]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) — Mathematics might seem like an abstract discipline, remote from real-world applications but their equations can significantly help understand and simulate the functioning of nature. Professor Alfio Quarteroni of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) is leading the Mathcard project in developing mathematical models of the […]
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Source: The Local A 16-year-old schoolboy has solved a mathematical problem which has stumped mathematicians for centuries, a newspaper report said. The boy put the historical breakthrough down to “schoolboy naivety.” Shouryya Ray, who moved to Germany from India with his family at the age of 12, has baffled […]