Some links about the uses of mathematics in everyday life:
- The Mathematics of RAID6: another remark that RAID5 is considered harmful
- The maths that made the Voyager possible: “Using a solution to the three-body problem, a single mission, launching from Earth in 1977, could sling a spacecraft past all four planets within 12 years. Such an opportunity would not present itself again for another 176 years.”
- Speeding GPS calculations by shrinking data
- Coded-TCP: replacing packets with algebraic equations to improve wireless bandwidth in the presence of errors
- Voice Recognition using MATLAB: easy and fun to experiment with