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Top 20 Nations in Mathematics; January 1, 2001-June 30, 2011 – We are #7

By Eugene Barsky on November 1, 2011

Canada is #7… From the Essential Science Indicators database from Thomson Reuters. Top 20 Nations in Mathematics; January 1, 2001-June 30, 2011

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Math Dance

By Eugene Barsky on September 20, 2011

courtesy of “Fantasy on high”.

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Singing about Engineering, Math and Science

Singing about Engineering, Math and Science

By Aleteia Greenwood on August 12, 2011

A team of scientists is investigating the ‘usefulness of music in science and math education’, and have created a website, with the help of an NSF grant, that includes a database of songs about engineering, math and science. Sing About Science & Math: songs for teaching, learning and fun My favourites: Graphene – the Musical [...]

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Michael Ward awarded the premier research prize by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society

By Eugene Barsky on June 15, 2011

UBC mathematician Michael Ward has been awarded the premier research prize by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society. The CAIMS Research Prize recognizes innovative and exceptional research contributions in an emerging area of applied or industrial mathematics. The citation recognizes Ward’s significant successful combination of singular perturbation techniques and numerical methods to analyze boundary-value [...]

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Today is Pi Day

By Eugene Barsky on March 14, 2011

The Chicago Tribune (3/14, Ford) reports that “Monday is Pi Day,” in honor of “the number that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter” and “starts with 3.14159. Thus, March 14, or 3/14, for Pi Day.” The celebration started in San Francisco in 1989 and “has spread around the world, and math [...]

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Studying the evolution of culture via Google Books

By Eugene Barsky on December 20, 2010

A very interesting read in the last week’s Science – http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1600.full?rss=1 The first explorations of the Google Books data are now on display in a study published online this week by Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1199644). The researchers have revealed 500,000 English words missed by all dictionaries, tracked the rise and fall of ideologies and famous people, and, [...]

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Babylonian math on display

By Eugene Barsky on December 16, 2010

A very interesting read from the NYT – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/science/23babylon.html?src=me&ref=general We have hundreds of books about the history of math – http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?subject=Mathematics–History. in the library, take a look…

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Google Translate – Useful Tool or Gibberish Generator?

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010

Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]

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Mathematics graduate seminar – Thu, 28 October, 12:30pm in LSK 460

By Eugene Barsky on October 26, 2010

Math grad students will see me for an 1/2 hr seminar on Thu, 28 October, 12:30pm in LSK 460. This is what I plan to cover: Mathematics Library – what can we do to save you time: This short seminar, presented by UBC Science librarian – Eugene Barsky – will focus on time saving library [...]

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International Congress of Mathematicians’ proceedings digitized back to 1893

By Eugene Barsky on September 29, 2010

At the ICM 2010 Opening Ceremony, the International Mathematical Union has inaugurated the server http://www.mathunion.org/ICM which provides access, free of charge, to the articles in all ICM proceedings volumes since the beginning of this series of congresses. IMU is grateful to all publishing houses that have granted the right to digitize these books. IMU particularly [...]

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