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Daylight Patterns of Countries

  Iceland's location in the North Atlantic Ocean and being close to the North Pole gives it daylight patterns unlike most other countries. Daylight is limited most in winter months and more available during summer months. Other countries that are similarly situated in the extreme north by the Arctic circle have similar daylight patterns are Greenland, Norway, Sweden, and Alaska in the United States. Information about each country is detailed below. 

Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan

THE legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was known for coming up with unconventional mathematical ideas. He has now inspired a computer program that does the same. Called the Ramanujan Machine, the software poses conjectures for generating equations whose output is fundamental mathematical constants such as π and e . A conjecture is an unproven mathematical statement. Born in 1887 in what is now Tamil Nadu in India , Ramanujan was a self-taught mathematician. He often claimed that his results came to him in a dream, and disliked the formal proofs favoured by most mathematicians. Ramanujan moved to the UK in 1914 to study at the University of Cambridge with the mathematician G. H. Hardy, and their long friendship led to a series of important results in the field of number theory. “Ramanujan had a way of producing things which looked true [but] he couldn’t necessarily convince other people why they were true,” says Saul Schleimer at the University of Warwick, UK.