Google – David Richeson: Division by Zero

Mathematical Google logos

Google loves to celebrate holidays and events by displaying custom logos on their website. All of their past custom logos are now available for browsing at Google Logos. I was happy to see that there are several mathematical ones. Here are some that I found (there are many science and technology-related logos that I’m not…

Weapons of math instruction

Google is digitizing 10 million photos from the the LIFE Magazine archives. Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Here are a couple mathematical ones. Caption: Cadets…

Google beats the CDC at their own game

Check this out! Google has been using search results to measure the severity of flu outbreaks around the United States. Google describes the phenomonon as follows. We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms… We compared our query counts with data…

Google scholar trick makes it more useful

Google Scholar is a resource for using Google to search for scholarly publications. I have not used the site much because, in my experience, it has been more of a frustration than an aid in research. When I used Google Scholar in the past I quickly found a link to the paper, but when I…

Google Books replaces the index

Indexes can be great tools for finding specific information in books. However, as we all know, they are often maddeningly incomplete. I was constantly frustrated when I was in graduate school studying for my analysis prelim exam. Royden’s Real Analysis (our text) had a terrible index. I ended up hand writing dozens of entries into…