The Mathematics News Snapshots for High School (MNS) project aims to provide high school students with a glimpse into the exciting and dynamic world of contemporary mathematics. The project was founded in order to decrease the gap between the ever-growing nature of mathematics and the stagnated nature of school curricula.
1980: A method for trisecting an angle by paper folding was found
1994: A computer software allows trans...
1998: The trajectory of charged particles trapped in the magnetic field of the Earth describes a Möbius str...
Read more1988: Peter Schatte claims according to Benford’s Law that base-8 is the preferred number base for computer...
Read moreLate 20th century: Prime numbers are used to encrypt information over the Internet (e.g., online shopping)....
Read more1986: “Tritone paradox” – by using a pair of carefully selected Shepard tones, our signal processing mechan...
Read more2016: Aziz and Mackenzie found a solution of the envy-free cake-cutting problem for n people in a bounded ...
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1976: The use of prime numbers in cryptography.
2008: The discovery of the first prime number with more ...
2012: Lindsey and Thurston discover that any simple closed curve in the complex plane can be approximated b...
Read moreIs every NP problem (i.e., a problem for which a solution exists that can be checked in polynomial runtime)...
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