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One Professor, Three Inventions

By Curtis Penfold
September 16, 2013 01:36 PM
Many teachers invent new methods to reach out to their students. Dr. Charles Knutson of the Computer Science Department has helped his students invent new things to reach out to the public.
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Cracking the Case of the Bad Bottles

By Curtis Penfold
August 08, 2013 03:58 PM
Mystery novels and research papers aren’t all that different.
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Probability of Success Goes Up with Mentor

By Curtis Penfold
May 30, 2013 01:14 PM
What are the odds of an undergraduate student being able to write a research paper in statistics that involves computational and mathematical analysis?
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BYU Math Team: #7 in the Nation

By Curtis Penfold
March 29, 2013 12:46 PM
When competing against Harvard and Virginia Tech, it’s not easy to be in the top 10, but BYU’s math team did just that by ranking number seven in the annual Putnam Exam.
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Nanotechnology Idol as an Undergrad?!

By Curtis Penfold
January 29, 2013 12:25 PM
There Lawrence was—a junior studying physics at BYU competing against PhD students and a CEO.
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Applying Math, Saving Lives

By Curtis Penfold
January 18, 2013 01:48 PM
Can math really save lives? According to Dr. Sridhar Tayur of Carnegie Mellon—you bet.
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To Bhutan and Back Again

By Curtis Penfold
December 03, 2012 12:23 PM
There they were, more than 7,000 miles from BYU, with pounds of snow gear and weather equipment in their backpacks.
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Math is Art: A Discovery of Patterns in Complicated Spaces

By Curtis Penfold
October 08, 2012 01:28 PM
“Math is beautiful. It’s like art,” Professor Gregory Conner says.
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Get with the Program: Computer Scientists Making Life Easier for Mathematicians

By Curtis Penfold
October 02, 2012 01:15 PM
You know why we love math? Unbeknownst to most, it helps computer scientists create spam filters.
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