If you think you're good in math you might wanna consider doing these math problems... way better than studying for school... solving any one will give you a million bucks. HINT - its not possible >.< LOL i couldnt even imagine a possible way to solve them. Still makes for an interesting read though... enjoy http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/million-dollar-math-problems/
My math is just horrible... I'm sorry my fellow asians... I'm giving us a bad name... >.< Hmm... I'm gonna show these questions to my math teacher... see if he can solve it. lol.
i usually blame my math problems on the Canadian education system, or that the fact i was born canadian. lol.
i think only like 1/4 of asll asians r good at math...i rememebr that game that some1 posted long time ago where u go thru level by typing in the url..that was fun
Thing is, I was told by my Prof in school most High Schoolers know more than the scientest in the 1800s. This is because everyone is require to learn all the theory, e.g. Physics, etc U think that rite?
Not surprising... 1800 was like the industrial revolution... ppl were just starting to figure out machines are more efficient than manual labor... my 6 yr old cousin couldve told you that LOL
i feel the same way. I'm horriable at it too even tho i ended up with an A this semester. whoa shocking.
Haha I know eh??? Darn... Canada... lol. =P Not true... for me anyways... all my asian friends... their math is great... I'm the only asian in the group who's math is crap... >.< I so have to start studying more... lol.
i like math well enuf, do well enuf in it, but im not studying it no more, lol... what does that mean? XDXD (im hopelessly confused, probably)
well i used to like maths in high school, but i dunno why i don't like maths anymore since im in the univervsity about the million dollar math site, all i can say is that some of the problems can be solved by approximations, like "the navier-stokes equations" problem from what i've learned in my dynamic of fluids course, the navier-stokes equations are used mostly in fluid mechanics and other applications, more specifically about newtonian fluids, but these equations are applied depending on different cases of the flow however, the problem about modeling the turbulence in the environment could be approximated by using these navier-stokes equations and generating some random values in high quantity for the motions of turbulence and use some other mathematical theories like the Taylor equations to approximate a function that is close to what we're looking for the travelling salesman problem is all about probabilities and generating a computer script that will calculate all the possibilities, but the difficulty there is how to do it correctly and be sure about it's fiability and to answer to ur question adrianc YES! that is right! scientists in the 1800's didn't have all the tools that we have now (computers, more advanced theories, more formulas, etc) they only had their brain and it was very hard for them to discover something new in science with all they had for example, just by using a comp these days, u can save enormous time to solve a problem when a machine does all the 5465 itteratives calculus while the scientist had to do them 1 by 1 with his pen 2 centuries ago also, now that we have more tools (more formulas like the derivatives, integrations, equations, etc) we can use these tools to solve almost anything that the scientists couldn't solve before when they didn't know these
yea but then the solution to the question and to claim your million dollars isnt an answer to a specific problem of that type. Its to produce an algorithm that will solve all problems of that type. For example the traveling salesman problem can be solved without a doubt by a very powerful computer... but as the number of routes increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to do so and there is a physical limit to just how powerful a computer can become, has something to do with the size of atoms and speed of electricity dun rmb exactly. So as the number of routes approaches infinity it becomes impossible to use a brute force approach with a computer.
