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Simple mathematics related to an aya of Sura Rehman, Quran Majeed

Surah Rehman is 55th sura in Quran Majeed, Holy Book of Muslims. This sura has total 78 aya. One aya is repeated in this sura i.e.فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ.  meaning “Then which of the...

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Cancer and various numbers associated with it

Cancer is a type of illness caused by the presence of malignant tumor. It could have different forms in the body and could spread to other body parts, when it becomes very fatal. Overall numbers...

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Math hurts math-anxious people; Research

Researchers have found that math anxiety creates almost the same response in the brain that is produced when a person feels a physical pain. This research has been published online in the journal of...

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“Star Trek classroom” helped students in gaining mathematical fluency and...

Researchers after working on a “classroom of the future” found that multi-touch and multi-user tables could improve the mathematical skills of the children. This research has been published online in...

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Proposed mathematical model could help to know the origin of life; Research

Researchers have proposed a mathematical model helping in expressing the origin of life on Earth at first place. This research has been published online in the journal Acta Biotheoretica. Among many of...

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Motivation and Study skills are more important than Intelligence in learning...

Researchers have found that in learning mathematics, motivation and study skills and habits play more important role than the intelligence. This research has been published online in the journal Child...

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World’s largest prime number takes 22.45 MB of memory in text form

Researchers have recently discovered the new prime number that is 17 million digits long. It is the world’s largest prime number discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper at the University of Central Missouri....

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Rutvik Oza, an Indian student, solved the open problem of Reve’s puzzle

It seems that Indians have a good Mathematical mind. Last year, a teenager Shouryya Ray solved the 350 years old mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton. Recently, 17-years old Rutvik Oza, a...

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Math learning increases with the combined use of Hand gestures and Speech

Main Point: Researchers found that teachers’ gestures along with the speech increase the math learning ability of the students. Journal: Child Development Study Further: Kimberly Fenn and Ryan Duffy...

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Plants do some mathematical tricks to consume proper amount of starch

Professors Martin Howard and Alison Smith. (Credit: Image courtesy of Norwich BioScience Institutes) Main Point: Researchers have reported that plants would go through some accurate mathematical...

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Royal Society Foreign Member wins Abel Prize

Main Points: Professor Yakov Sinai has been awarded the 2014 Abel Prize for his work on for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics.  Sinai, who is...

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Using mathematics to beat jetlag effectively

Main Points: Our “internal clock” is predicted to shift more rapidly than previously thought. In a study published in PLOS Computational Biology on April 10th, researchers present schedules of light...

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Fingertips can actually perform calculations

Fingertips can perform calculations (Credit: K.Muncie/Flickr) Main Point: Nerve endings on our fingertips have the same ability of performing complex neural computations as we can find in our brain....

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Many people are not completely sure about their math ability

Main Point: Many people are unaware of their mathematics-related abilities, and these abilities have to be considered in their evaluations and life outcomes. Published in: Journal of Personal and...

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Better method for faster learning of math

Better method for faster learning of math (Image source: files.eric.ed.gov) Main Point: Finger tracing can help school-going kids in learning mathematics better. Published in: Applied Cognitive...

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Interesting math trick to convert miles to kilometers and vice versa

The Fibonacci sequence can be used to know the kilometers and their equivalent miles. Actually, the Fibonacci sequence consists of the numbers that are made of the addition of the previous two numbers...

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Journey from finite to infinite (English quote)

#motivation #mathematicsThe journey from FINITE to INFINITE only starts with putting IN, all the efforts, in the FINITE.NB.Get eBook of Usman Zafar Paracha on Biostatistics – “Biostatistics – When Pain...

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“Prime number (17) ki taqseem (Division of a prime number (17) – Urdu)”– A video

This video relates to a beautiful decision made by Hazrat Ali (radi-ALLAHu-TA’ALA-anhu) in case of the division of 17 camels into three different divisions, i.e., 1/2, 1/3, and 1/9. It was really an...

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“Aath rotiyon aur dirham ki taqseem (Division of eight breads and dirhams –...

This video relates to a beautiful decision made by Hazrat Ali (radi-ALLAHu-Ta’ala-anhu) regarding the division of eight breads and eight dirhams among two/three people. I hope we will learn something...

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Fourth mathematical question shows psychological trap – An illustration

This post contains four mathematical questions related to squares. Fourth mathematical question also shows a psychological trap. Check more here on SayPeople.com Psychological trap Rectangle.387...

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