James Miekka, the mathematician who dreamed it up, has become an overnight celebrity.
The mathematician stipulated that cognitive thought and logic could be reduced to a series of binary expressions.
FORBES: The Original Hacker and Why His Work, 300 Years Ago, Matters Today
The mathematician defined the language in his 1703 paper Explanation of Binary Arithmetic.
FORBES: The Original Hacker and Why His Work, 300 Years Ago, Matters Today
Among the signatories are Nobel Laureate, Sir Harry Kroto, the mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah and the professor of natural history Aubrey Manning.
Based at Bletchley Park, the mathematician was part of the team that cracked the Nazi Enigma code - a vital part of the allied war effort.
The two-dimensional equivalent is known as Penrose tiling (see picture above), after Sir Roger Penrose, the mathematician who put this form of geometry on a formal footing.
Members of the Turing family then came forward with some of the mathematician's personal belongings, which are on show to the public for the first time in this exhibition.
Taking an elective in college used to mean studying something you wanted to learn about but not necessarily major in: the mathematician who took a class in 19th century Russian literature or the French major who studied Biology 101.
Occam, the priestly mathematician, said when in doubt the simplest answer is the right one.
Most British readers will have strong memories of Ruth Lawrence, the brilliant mathematician who rose to national fame when she went to Oxford University aged 12.
But a big attraction is the 57-year-old Yau himself: He's the leading Chinese mathematician and ranks among the top ten in the world, says Phillip Griffiths, a math professor and a former president of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
The group's guru is Eugene Trubowitz, a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who normally dwells on the most theoretical boundaries of physics.
There's also a 1936 first edition of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society where mathematician Alan Mathison Turing introduces the concept of a "universal machine, " an imaginary computing device.
The economist, mathematician and philosopher Frank Ramsey proved this in 1927.
In March 2009 we had a bear market correction based upon cheap equity valuations, oversold technicals, and a long-term up trend with help from Fibonacci, the thirteenth century mathematician.
Thomas got LexisNexis to share data on millions of court citations, and with the help of mathematician Antonio Tomarchio, he showed that citations display a highly skewed distribution, similar to that of links among Web sites or the likelihood that top movie stars will appear in a film together.
It said the fallen oligarch had been a "talented mathematician who became the great schemer".
BBC: Boris Berezovsky: Few tears in Russia for 'master of chaos'
In her laboratory at the University of Washington, mathematician Kristin Rae Swanson peers into the future of brain cancer patients--on her computer screen.
Invented in the mid-1990s by a blind mathematician named James Miekka, the Hindenburg Omen is an indicator of a market crash.
It was 1993 and China was bidding for the 2000 Olympics. with the country brimming with confidence, a Chinese-born Harvard mathematician figured this was the time to ask China to host another global event held every four years.
In the 1930s, French mathematician Levy crystallized this deviation into a formula.
FORBES: Wise Up: 'Normal' Market Behavior Is Not Normal But Crazy Is
Only in the 19th century did the answer become clear, when Niels Henrik Abel, a Norwegian mathematician, showed that the quintic is insoluble.
If that step proves too technically difficult for the person who made the discovery, a mathematician or statistician can be added as a collaborator.
In 1608, the Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli was born.
Working with NCI statistician Richard Simon, Norton came up with a new model of tumor growth based on the work of the 19th-century mathematician Benjamin Gompertz.
Thony Christie of Renaissance Mathematicus recently turned a Blast from the Past toward a much neglected sixteenth century mathematician whose education reforms helped train the pioneers of the Scientific Revolution.
FORBES: A Long Forgotten Father of the Scientific Revolution
First, by stressing what computers cannot do, no matter how powerful or complicated they may become in future, Mr Harel, a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, provides a welcome antidote to Internet hype.
And there was also the first report on a new way of conducting an election, being tried experimentally in the French presidential election, devised by a mathematician who hopes it may overcome many of the flaws in other voting systems.
Born in Stockholm, the son of a botanist and a mathematician, he turned his back on family tradition by studying art history at the University of Stockholm.
应用推荐