THE STATE OF SCIENCE: Fraud is the exception not the rule in science, but it happens, as one recent high-profile case showed. How does this occur, and what can mathematics bring to the equation? Jon Borwein…
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Let’s talk numbers for a moment. The moon is approximately 384,000 kilometres away, and the sun is approximately 150 million kilometres away. The mean distance between Earth and the sun is known as the…
During a lunch in the summer of 1950, physicists Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller and Herbert York were chatting about a recent New Yorker cartoon depicting aliens abducting trash cans in flying saucers. Suddenly…
While adding up your grocery bill in the supermarket, you’re probably not thinking how important or sophisticated our number system is. But the discovery of the present system, by unknown mathematicians…
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
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Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis
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Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis
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Research Affiliate in Human Ecology, University of California, Davis
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Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of California, Davis
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Researcher in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
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Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Management, University of California, Davis
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Director, Cannabis Economics Group, University of California, Davis
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Post-Doctoral Scholar, Centers for Violence Prevention, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis
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Graduate Student Researcher in Transport Technology, University of California, Davis