The Polynomials that Generate Prime Numbers

The search for primes started thousands of years ago. Mathematicians since antiquity tried to find ways to look for primes. They also searched for methods to test if a number is prime or not. Others tried to find polynomials to generate primes.

The Sieve of Eratosthenes

One of the ancient methods of listing prime numbers is the Sieve of Eratosthenes. The Sieve consists of a finite list of numbers, where the multiples of each number are crossed out starting from 2 and increasing each time the list is exhausted.  » Read more

An Easy Way To Learn The Basic Trigonometric Identities

First learn the structure. Learn the positions of the six trigonometry functions. First comes the \sin function, underneath it comes the \cos function.

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Then in the next column comes the \csc function, underneath it comes the \sec function. And in the last column comes the \cot function and underneath it comes the \tan function. Learning this position is important and just one time. The six trig functions are specially placed in the above given places, so as to serve our need.  » Read more

How To Embed Wolfram Demonstrations on Websites and Blogs

A year ago, I shared about Wolfram Demonstrations, now a collection of more than 8000 free interactive materials in mathematics and science . The Demonstrations are created with Mathematica, a commercial software, but they can be downloaded and used for free using the Computational Document Format (CDF) Player.

In August 2012, the site provided a code for each demonstration to enable embedding in websites and blogs. In this post, we learn how to do this. Note that this tutorial is intended for the not-so-techie mathematics teachers who want to add interactive worksheets to their websites and blogs. » Read more

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