Volume 10, Number 6

7 February 2005 Vol. 10, No. 6 THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS The Mathematics of Tsunamis | CountMathula.com Manjul Bhargava: An Artist of Music and Math THE MATHEMATICS OF TSUNAMIS By Eric W. Weisstein and Michael Trott http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-01-14/tsunamis/ Weisstein and Trott write, "The recent tragic events following the December 2004 magnitude 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean have reminded us of the need for scientific understanding and modeling of complicated physical phenomena in order to prevent unnecessary loss of life from natural disasters (cf. Post and Vatta 2005)." Their article is the latest in the MathWorld Headline News area of MathWorld from Wolfram Research. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/ -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- COUNTMATHULA.COM http://www.countmathula.com/worksheets.htm As part of her new website, Michelle offers worksheets geared toward her Algebra III and Trigonometry classes. She posts them as MS Word downloads, editable using MathType, and also as PDFs. http://www.countmathula.com/worksheets-pdf.htm They are organized under these topics: - Functions - Complex Numbers - Trigonometry Michelle also offers a variety of pre-made graph paper in PDF format to download. They can be found at the bottom of this page: http://www.countmathula.com/resources.htm -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- MANJUL BHARGAVA: AN ARTIST OF MUSIC AND MATH http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4111253 As part of a Morning Edition series from National Public Radio (NPR) exploring the intersection of art and science, Richard Harris reports on the beauty of mathematics; its ties to art; and Manjul Bhargava, a man who straddles both worlds. Download files and listen to: - Bhargava Play the Tabla - Bhargava on Number Theory and Its Links to Poetry, Visual Art and "The Da Vinci Code" \|/ ASK DR. MATH FAQ: GOLDEN RATIO, FIBONACCI SEQUENCE http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.golden.ratio.html Dr. Math explains the Golden Ratio (or Golden Mean), the Golden Rectangle, and the relation between the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum @ Drexel http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/pow/ Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/ Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/discussions/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors Donations http://www.drexel.edu/ia/mathforum/ Ask Dr. Math Books http://mathforum.org/pubs/dr.mathbooks.html _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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