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On-line Against Bullying (FMD - Fondazione Mondo Digitale)

Edit Public Technologies 11 May 2016
(Source. FMD - Fondazione Mondo Digitale). Today, the Rome Città Educativa will host the Third Conference on School Bullying on May 10 (10 am, Via del Quadraro 102) ... Hellenic Open University (coordinator) in Greece, Inforef in Belgium, Computer Technology Institute & Press Diophantus in Greece, Fondazione Mondo Digitale in Italy, and the Dublin City University - Anti-Bullying Centre in Ireland. PROGRAMME ... 10.10 - PROJECT SONETBULL ... (noodl....

How to Prevent Bullying (FMD - Fondazione Mondo Digitale)

Edit Public Technologies 09 May 2016
(Source. FMD - Fondazione Mondo Digitale) ... [see news. Bullying at School] ... Hellenic Open University (coordinator) in Greece, Inforef in Belgium, Computer Technology Institute & Press Diophantus in Greece, Fondazione Mondo Digitale in Italy, and the Dublin City University - Anti-Bullying Centre in Ireland....

Bullying at School (FMD - Fondazione Mondo Digitale)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016
(Source. FMD - Fondazione Mondo Digitale) ... Amongst older students, the most victims are in high school (19.4%) followed by 18.1% in professional schools and 16% in technical schools ... Hellenic Open University (coordinator) in Greece, Inforef in Belgium, Computer Technology Institute & Press Diophantus in Greece, Fondazione Mondo Digitale in Italy, and the Dublin City University - Anti-Bullying Centre in Ireland ... (noodl. 33411483) ....

Professor Who Solved Fermat's Last Theorem Wins Math's Abel Prize

Edit National Public Radio 17 Mar 2016
i. Mathematics professor Andrew Wiles has won a prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. He's seen here with the problem written on a chalkboard in his Princeton, N.J., office, back in 1998. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP hide caption. toggle caption Charles Rex Arbogast/AP. Mathematics professor Andrew Wiles has won a prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem ... "In 1637, while perusing Diophantus, whose historic importance is outlined by Mr ... ....

Profile: Professor Florian Luca (University of the Witwatersrand)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Nov 2015
(Source. University of the Witwatersrand). Inspiring postgraduate mathematicians and connecting the South African and global mathematics community at the highest level is a key focus for Distinguished Professor Florian Luca ... Number theory ... It is one of the oldest mathematical pursuits, dating back 2500 years to a mathematician called Diophantus of Alexandria, sometimes called the father of algebra ... Working with postgraduates ... (noodl....

Children should be taught how to break rules, says headteacher

Edit The Daily Telegraph 24 Nov 2014
Nigel Lashbrook, head of prestigious boarding school, calls on teachers to encourage rebellion among their pupils. Photo. PA. By Eleanor Doughty. 6.52AM GMT 24 Nov 2014. Comments ... He said ...   ... Schools told ... "What if mathematicians hadn’t queried the Greek mathematician Diophantus, who described equations with negative solutions as “absurd”, and, as a result, set Mathematics on the road to complex numbers and beyond? ... ....

The First Female Astronomer

Edit Huffington Post 09 Jul 2014
In 2009 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) held its general assembly in Rio de Janeiro. Of the 2,109 participants, 667 (or 31.6 percent) were women. Indeed, in recent years, the fraction of women among astronomers has been growing continuously ... 350-415 C.E.; Fig ... Figure 1 ... (Image in the .) ... She also wrote explanatory notes on several books in mathematics, most notably Apollonius' Conics and Diophantus's multivolume Arithmetica ... 1)....

Tomorrow's Internet starts now: get ready! (European Commission)

Edit noodls 18 Mar 2014
(Source. European Commission). European Commission. MEMO. Brussels, 18 March 2014. Tomorrow's Internet starts now. get ready!. With some 2.5 billion users world-wide, today's Internet is an established part of our lives ... And it is developing fast ... The pilot involves the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNet) @grnet_gr , the Computer Technology Institute & Press "Diophantus" (CTI) and also a start-up company, Intelen @intelen ... Email....

Brain power still the genesis of scientific breakthroughs

Edit South China Morning Post 09 Feb 2014
The human mind was the most powerful instrument. By just thinking about it long and hard, the Greeks conceived the philosophy of science between 350BC and AD400 ... These principles, along with Euclid's treatise on geometry and mathematical proof around 300BC, and Diophantus' on arithmetic and algebra around AD200, laid the foundations for scientific investigation. The power of the human mind is even more stunning in astronomy....
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