Cool Math Blogs

UCLA mathematicians working with the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze crime patterns have designed a mathematical algorithm to identify street gangs involved in unsolved violent crimes. Their research is based on patterns of known criminal activity between gangs, and represents the first scholarly study of gang violence of its kind.

There is nothing like the Internet to help spread bite-sized pieces of info across the globe, and cool math is a happy hitchhiker when it comes to meme traffic. 

One of the most powerful uses of YouTube has got to be this: the YouTube Space Lab. It uses the YouTube format and world-spanning forum to advance the cause of math and science!

The Google Science Fair 2012 is on! The entry deadline is April 1, 2012.

Google is looking for students aged 13 through 18 to submit science-related projects, videos, inventions, ideas…whatever you've got!

Minds that are NOT autistic are called neurotypical. We know very well the potential that a neurotypical brain has for reaching great heights in math (like in this blog post HERE). But, it's always interesting to see how math traverses a brain that's wired a little differently.

Looks like the NBA season is back on track. We were wondering how Kobe or LeBron would do if they started playing the game like poker players.

It's hard enough for elementary/middle school kids to find the right study habits, particularly when it comes to subjects like math that require bouts of uninterrupted concentration. But are parents helping or hindering them?

Maurits Cornelis Escher -- better known as M.C. Escher -- was a Dutch graphic artist known worldwide for creating impossible realities with his art. His unique and fascinating works of art explore and exhibit a wide range of mathematical ideas.

Music is a mathematical and emotional medium. It's no secret that math and music manifest together in many common areas.

As we ease our way back into blogging, we thought we'd start with a dreamy video of a giant tetrahedral kite called Three Cubes Colliding.