Pi Day
Let me launch a challenge.
I've been reading this article about Pi In https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/google-doodle-celebrates-pi-day-here-s-how-nasa-honours-the-mathematical-constant-1188969-2018-03-14
and for the umpteenth time I have asked myself about Google Doodles. This amazing gadget has been a source of knowledge pills.
Back to the challenge. Could we find an online tool to make them? I have seen many, but I don't know one that I could really use without much computer knowledge? By this I mean we could try, tell and show to the rest.
Could it be a good activity for the students at home to design one on a mathematician, a math game or a concept? Google welcomes them in: https://doodles.google.com/d4g/how-it-works/ and has created materials for the teachers:https://doodles.google.com/d4g/educators/
Besides, it admits many different materials in their design, analogic too. So maybe there's hope for everyone! ;)
Here's some for inspiration: https://cutt.ly/OtzCpRf
Mariví de la Rocha
Do you get your students know the lives behind outstanding mathematicians? If so, how? They can be a great collaboration source with other subjects.
Most of us knew about Catherine Johnson when the film Hidden Figures appeared in 2017 and we were amazed and intrigued by her life and work.
Catherine Johnson died just a few days ago and The New York Times published this obituary on her memory:
Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA
She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”
Catherine Johnson, part of a small group of African-American women mathematicians who did crucial work at NASA, in 1966.Credit...NASA/Donaldson Collection, via Getty Images
By Feb. 24, 2020
They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them.
Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday at a retirement home in Newport News, Va., calculated the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history-making moonwalk, let it return to Earth.
A single error, she well knew, could have dire consequences for craft and crew. Her impeccable calculations had already helped plot the successful flight of Alan B. Shepard Jr., who became the first American in space when his Mercury spacecraft went aloft in 1961.
The next year, she likewise helped make it possible for John Glenn, in the Mercury vessel Friendship 7, to become the first American to orbit the Earth.
Yet throughout Mrs. Johnson’s 33 years in NASA’s Flight Research Division — the office from which the American space program sprang — and for decades afterward, almost no one knew her name.
https://www.abelprize.no/
Welcome to the Abel Prize
The Abel Prize was established on 1 January 2002. The purpose is to award the Abel Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics. The prize amount is 7,5 million NOK and was awarded for the first time on 3 June 2003.
The prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which has appointed an Abel Committee consisting of five mathematicians to review the nominated candidates and submit a recommendation for a worthy Abel laureate.
School Education Gateway belongs to Educational School Gateway, which is Europe's online platform for school education. In another page of this site -Erasmus+ Opportunities- you can find three tools and information for schools to prepare Erasmus+ applications:
1. Course catalogue
Catalogue of professional development courses for school teachers and staff.
2. Mobility opportunities
Opportunities for school staff to undertake teaching assignments and job shadowing in a host school/organization abroad.
3.Strategic partnerships
Search for partner schools/organizations across Europe to carry out joint projects that aim at improving standards and the quality of teaching and learning.
Share your resources or proposal for "C is for Culture"
This is a short article with some inspirational experiences.
https://www.tiki-toki.com/blog/entry/women-mathematicians/
To celebrate the 8th March many schools are devoting many activities to promote the role of women in different subjects.
On this web page you can find information about outstanding women in Maths.
Could our students make something similiar about Spanish women?
https://www.famousmathematicians.net/famous-female-mathematicians/
Finish Schubert's 'Unfinished Symphony' with an algorithm: sacrilege? | Culture
Franz Schubert It is a perpetual enigma. He died young, at the age of 31, but more than to wear himself out in an intense life, like so many other musicians, he was consumed in a certain solitary melancholy of coffees as an outlet for his total dedication to creation. "The state should take care of me," he wrote to a friend, to give an account of his devotion to work. And if these times ran, maybe the technology company did Huawei, which has designed by algorithm and artificial intelligence the auction of its Symphony number eight, known as the Unfinished.
He
was the penultimate in his catalog of orchestral works. In romantic
Vienna in the early nineteenth century, Schubert came to create nine.
Therefore, more than not being able to complete it, probably, the two
missing movements were lost. Not because of him. He had planned to write
it for the Graz Musical Society, which made him an honorary member. He
handed out sketches of his score to his friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner in
1822. But he may have lost them along the way.The
original, the psychological and psychiatric, the same concept of error
as a tool ... all these aspects are consubstantial to the mind of a
creator, not of a machine "Sánchez-Verdú
It is one of the quite probable theories. The fact is that this was how it became the most mysterious and interpreted work of its author for orchestra. An accumulation of diatribes have happened on her and her symbolic influence appears again to be prey now on artificial intelligence. Huawei presented it in public this Monday at the Cadogan Hall of London, while the controversy has been stirring before a result that has given to speak before it was released.
In a note, the company says that the version has been created through the use of an artificial intelligence model that directly benefits from its own technology of neural processing applied to its mobiles. From the timbre, the tone and the beat of the first and second movements preserved, the model generated a melody for the non-existent or missing third and fourth foreseen. Subsequently, Huawei worked with the composer Lucas Cantor to fix an orchestral score of the melody in the line that Schubert presumably sought then.
The Spanish composer José María Sánchez-Verdú puts us in context: "Since the sixties this type of work is being done. Already in the US, with the first computers, they are put into practice. Substituting the mind and creativity of a composer through algorithmic processes developed by a machine is enormously old, "he says.
Nor are distraction maneuvers worth: "Everything falls within the advertising sphere, launching technological news and, in addition, from great names and works of European culture, as is now Schubert." The initiative abounds in several previous attempts. "There are several versions developed by composers in the last twenty years about this symphony. I personally do not find any encouragement and interest in these proposals, "says Sánchez-Verdú.
Who are we to complete a work of, in this case, one of the most sensitive, refined and original musicians in history? " Gustavo Gimeno
For this creator of reference in the world, human mind and fantasy play with many more aspects that any computer program can develop. "In statistical terms, algorithms and possibilities, you can create this type of work and correctly. However, the aesthetic, social, personal, and many other aspects such as the original, the surprising, the audacious, the imperfect, the psychological and psychiatric, the same concept of error as a tool ... all these aspects are inherent to the mind of a creator, not a machine. "
TO Fabián Panisello, also a composer and head of the Plural Ensemble group, the experiment does not seem appropriate: "No longer for ethical reasons, but because a creator can make a qualitative leap at any time he considers it within a formal panorama. It is something unpredictable for any kind of artificial intelligence. The intuition of a composer dominates fundamental data and metadata in face of the resources required by his work. The rest is mere form and appearance ... ", says the musician, who has just released his work in Spain Les Rois Mages before presenting it this year in Nice, Vienna, Munich, Basel and Tel Aviv.
For Lucia Marín, orchestra director, "is a good hook to bring technology to art. An interesting experiment, "he says. "That a technological company was raised and resolved an acrobatic exercise of these characteristics seems to me a heroic and intellectual daring that tells us where we were going. But let's not forget that it is lacking in the essential: the soul. Music, in its essence, aims to make us transcend to all those infinite ideas of the intangible that as the little prince said is invisible to the eyes, "he adds.
When Marín works on a score, the questions flow: "What is the ulterior motive for which a composer is dragged by the unstoppable force of writing, what does he feel? I take a long time to answer, sometimes years. In the end, every work of art comes from the heart to reach the heart, I usually respond. Artificial means that it is not conceived by the human being, who does not belong to nature, who, therefore, lacks life, "he confesses.
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor and head of the Luxembourg Philharmonic, does not see the object of the initiative: "What for? Honestly, I do not get any interest ... It seems nonsense ... The composition is wonderful as it is, just like the Ninth Bruckner's Symphony, incomplete for other reasons. Schubert lived long enough to have finished it and he did not. Who are we to complete a work of, in this case, one of the most sensitive, refined and original musicians in history? ".
What's your opinion? Are algorithms the new Philosopher's Stone?
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