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whats new and exciting in maths?
Q. I am a complete mathematics dunbo but I love the stories like feeding that simultaneous quadratic equation back into itself and creating fractals and chaos. I love it when maths stops being predictable - is this at the edge of maths and physics disciplines ? - I dont understand it but I love the stories are there any new ones?
Asked by jac the hat - Wed Mar 11 14:18:17 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. There's a ton of really exciting stuff out there! This is a really great time to be a mathematician, perhaps even one of the best times in history (though it just keeps getting better and better). Unfortunately a lot of the really cutting edge stuff is so mind-numbingly technical that you need a PhD in mathematics just to understand the basic questions that people are working on. But there are a couple of things that happened pretty recently which are easier to sink your teeth into. Primes in arithmetic progression: An arithmetic progression is a sequence of integers a1, a2, a3,..., an whose differences are all equal to the same number d; a2 - a1 = d, a3 - a2 = d,..., an - a(n-1) = d. The length of an arithmetic progression is simply… [cont.]
Answered by anonymous dude - Wed Mar 11 15:44:09 2009

Do you think DNA was created by intelligence or happen stance?
Q. Consider that patterns occur naturally - no help required from a 'designer'. Many patterns occur in nature snowflakes, tornados, hurricanes, sand dunes, stalactites, rivers and ocean waves. These patterns are the natural result of what scientists categorize as chaos and fractals. These things are well-understood and we experience them every day. Codes do not occur without a designer. Examples of symbolic codes include music, blueprints, languages like English and Chinese, computer programs, and DNA. The essential distinction is the difference between a pattern and a code. Chaos can produce patterns, but it has never been shown to produce codes or symbols. Codes and symbols store information, which is not a property of matter… [cont.]
Asked by Awesome Nana - Thu Mar 12 18:56:58 2009 - - 15 Answers - 1 Comments

A. DNA forms spontanelously from nucleotides. Its is the laws of chemistry that create the code. A sting of DNA means nothing on its own. It takes tRNA, mRNA and a host of enzymes co-factors and amino acids to make sense of it all. It all points to the bearded man in the sky I think. Pink lemur. As a scientist I make proteins that work very well every week. DNA can be made, I make DNA to encode my proteins. Nucleotide bases can be made by chemists. Those I have not actually made myself.
Answered by James X - Thu Mar 12 19:04:09 2009

Simplification of chaotic equation?
Q. Our names are Danny Zlotnikov and Doron Levin. We have read an article named "Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction" from In this article we found a description of a simple equation which calculates next year's population: Next year s population = R * This Year s population * ( 1- This Year s population) R is the growth rate. The biologist Robert May discovered that this function has unpredictable, chaotic and fractal like behavior, calculating the population of the coming years. But if x is the population of this year and Fn(x) is the population of the nth year after this one, we get: F1(x)=R*x*(1-x); F2(x)=R* F1(x)*(1- F1(x)); ... Fn(x) = R* Fn-1(x)*(1- Fn-1(x)) and Fn(x) is a polynomial: Fn(x) = a0+a1*x+a2*x^2+...+(an+1) *(x) [cont.]
Asked by doron l - Tue Jan 9 13:45:09 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The answer to your question is given at the website: "This phenomenon, common to chaos theory, is also known as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Just a small change in the initial conditions can drastically change the long-term behavior of a system. Such a small amount of difference in a measurement might be considered experimental noise, background noise, or an inaccuracy of the equipment. Such things are impossible to avoid in even the most isolated lab. With a starting number of 2, the final result can be entirely different from the same system with a starting value of 2.0001. It is simply impossible to achieve this level of accuracy - just try and measure something to the nearest millionth of an inch!" The variable that… [cont.]
Answered by Bigsky_52 - Tue Jan 9 14:40:28 2007