You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The idea of “reflection” is one of several Euclidean motions in a plane that are studied in ...

Sociological Forum, Vol. 12, No. 1, Special Issue: Mathematics in Thinking about Sociology (Mar., 1997), pp. 73-101 (29 pages) As a participant in the development of mathematical sociology over the ...

A very recently published book "Mathematical Cultures, London Meetings 2012-2014," edited by Brendan Larvor, contains a chapter titled "Mathematics and First Nations in Western Canada: From Cultural ...

The SLIIT MathFest 2023 organised by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (DMS) was successfully held on the 26th of August at the SLIIT auditorium, Malabe. The occasion was graced by the ...

Translations and reflections are examples of transformations of shapes. If a shape is transformed, its position and/or size is changed. Translation is when a shape slides across, up, down or ...

I can’t recall the last time the death of a school teacher, much less a math teacher, attracted as much attention as the recent death of Jaime Escalante. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a movie ...

Part of the joy of the winter break is that it’s a chance to read something longer than twenty pages. I spent part of it reading Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction,” which is well worth ...

Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, John Nash—these “beautiful” minds never fail to enchant the public, but they also remain somewhat elusive. How do some people progress from being able to ...