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Archive for June 2012

What does a mathematician look like?

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 20, 2012

It’s common knowledge that mathematicians are scruffy, old, bald, bearded men, who could double for axe murderers, right? So which of the following people are mathematicians? [The answer is written below the last images, in white. To see the answer highlight the hidden text with your cursor.]   All of them!

The rise and rise of diabetes

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 15, 2012

Diabetes is on the rise in the United States, and throughout most of the developed world. The charts below show the incidence of diabetes in the United States, by county, for 2004 and 2008 (click on the images to enlarge them): We see that even for the short 4 year period 2004- 2008 there has […]