If you did maths in high school and wondered when someone would ever use it in real life, this may provide you with some answers. This article by the American Mathematical Society on physorg.com has details of how maths is used in computer animation for movies.
The greater the animators knowledge of how to approximate physical phenomena in mathematical terms the more realistic their computer animation can be.
This article contains details on the use of maths and science in solving crimes. This has been explored in the TV show Numb3rs.
This article features details on computational modelling of liquids.
In 2004, paleontologists digging in the Canadian Arctic unearthed the
fossil of a 375-million-year-old creature named Tiktaalik that possessed
both the scales of a fish and the sturdy, jointed limb bones of a land
animal—and this single, perfect transitional fossil bridged the
evolutionary gap between water and land, showing the exact moment our
distant ancestors began to crawl out of the sea.
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In 1999, three paleontologists made a decision that would, five years
later, lead them to one of the most important fossil discoveries of the
twenty-firs...
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