Math in the Media

Chronological Table of Contents     February 1999 -

Jun 07 Too good at math? Mathematical patterns in songs Curvature and the growth of cells	May 07 Computing with locomotives Mathematical tools needed Misaligned math tests
Apr 07 E8 in the New York Times E8 in the media Intel silver and bronze for math projects Cooking Gaussian curvature "Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime"	Mar 07 Fibonacci music Medieval Islamic quasi-periodic tilings
Feb 07 Ricci flow on Science cover x e-x in a tropical rainforest Sculptor and mathematician "Proof at a roll of the dice."	Jan 07 Nine lawyers and a mathematician The math of swarms Math propaganda on Bay Area TV "I was a teenage angle trisector." Mathematician becomes "Genome Sleuth"
Dec 06 Rebellion at Topology Spidrons "As Math Scores Lag ..." Math, Podcast from the Ozarks	Nov 06 The Emperor of Math "Numbers are Male, said Pythagoras ..." Next year in Marienbad: chaos "Less happy + less confidence = good math student"
Oct 06 The Geometry of Musical Chords Epithelial topology Mathematical error control	Sep 06 Math: Whale Songs → Kaleidoscopic Images The Poincaré conjecture on National Public Radio and in the New York Times More math on NPR: encryption; soccer-ball design
Jul-Aug 06 Gravitational waves in the news Summertime, when math losses come easy Math at the World Cup	Jun 06 "The N.S.A's Math Problem" Void in a golden cage Now Math Diplomacy - I Now Math Diplomacy - II
May 06 1 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 8 = a poem "A Helix with a Handle" Dynamics of Roach Congregation	Apr 06 Counting Ben Franklin's magic squares Chaos in the deep The differential geometry of quantum computation
Mar 06 Fractals finger suspect Pollocks Plant growth and the Golden Ratio, re-evaluated Mathematical Incompleteness in the Scientific American	Feb 06 "The Geometry of the Jungle" Deal or No Deal? Cuboctahedral vesicles in eukaryotic cells
Jan 06 The Euclidean metric and jail time Mathematical patterns in asthma attacks Atiyah pulls the strings	Dec 05 Penfield NY, a front in "the nationwide math wars," Glacial climate cycles and the least common multiple Math on the Millenium Bridge
Nov 05 The math of meniscus mountaineering Hermann Weyl, remembered in Nature A new topology for the internet	Oct 05 Math and the art of mattress flipping Virus geometry Dirac: algebraist or geometer?
Sep 05 Math and narrative on Mykonos World's largest nano-deltahedron Fibonacci numbers on microstructures?	Aug 05 Penrose tiling Down Under Math and the Unicorn Tapestries
Jun-Jul 05 Plaster math models as art The math behind "Intelligent Design" Archimedes palimpsest update	May 05 The math beneath the Interplanetary Superhighway Peter Lax in the New York Times The math of craquelure Proof checking by computer assistants
Apr 05 Differential geometry and the Venus Flytrap Wrong, Wrong and Wrong Amateur math in ancient Japan	Mar 05 More Origami Mathematics Algorithmic complexity in evolution Relativity. Incompleteness. Uncertainty. Six degrees of self-similarity
Feb 05 Crocheted Manifold "Blood, math and gore." More about "Numb3rs" Terror Network Theory	Jan 05 Ant geometry The Magic of Math, in Queens Father of fractals
Dec 04 IT and the Riemann Hypothesis Gödel's Theorem on ABC News Making wavelets in the art world	Nov 04 Math in a fly's eye Murphy's Law: the equation Tradition vs. Modernity Topology and the Aharonov-Bohm effect Solve the equation, get the job
Oct 04 Mandelbrot and the Market Math and the Gypsy Moth Musings on the Math Olympiad More on the 5th postulate	Sep 04 The Math of Medical Marriages Bird Logic Calculus, the play
Jul-Aug 04 Mathematical Origami Local Boy Makes Good? Mind, Music and Math	Jun 04 The Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball DNA does the twist Understanding the ununderstandable
May 04 More about Kepler's Problem Math is hard! Recent math history in the Chronicle Inside gifted brains The Bayesian revolution Chaos in Nature	Apr 04 Atiyah, Singer in The Boston Globe Math Ed in Britain Statistical Topology of Networks
Mar 04 Google salutes Julia Perelman in Nature Groupoids and the leech heart Love Model Equations	Feb 04 Aromatic Möbius strip Perelman in the Baltimore Sun "Malignant Maths" Bayesian athletics Bayesian filters for spam
Jan 04 Archimedes Combinatorist Michael in India Calculators vs. math skills Largest prime yet Mathe-musical instrument	Dec 03 Everything and More The Most Important Problem Who invented the electronic digital computer? Far East Math Flap Hilbert Hotel Onstage Auxin and the Fibonacci numbers
Nov 03 Why math books are hot. At home in dodecahedral space. Math on the golf course	Oct 03 Infinite Wisdom Wolfram in Washington African Institute Paul Wolfowitz, "former mathematician"
Sep 03 15 milliseconds of fame Women at the EDGE Death and the heptagon A heap of trouble "Please, Pile On the Problems?"	Jul-Aug 03 New York State Regents Math Flap "Pure Math - Pure Joy" Gravitational caustics Where do we do math? Beyond Buckyballs
Jun 03 Math in Nature Imaginary numbers in The Observer The Golden Mean in The New York Times The Poincaré Conjecture (cont.) Dog bites math	May 03 The Poincaré Conjecture Coot Math Wolfram at the Cooper-Hewitt "The Superformula"
Apr 03 This doughnut universe Knots in the Washington Post Anthrax: the math	Mar 03 4 log 3 - a new cosmic constant? Ethnomath in the Times Magazine. Math reform in Russia. Quantum computing in The Economist
Feb 03 Splits at Clay Gödel in Science "Math's Wild and Crazy Guy" Figure skating Mathematical oncology Democracy and despotism	Jan 03 The Putnam in Time Too much pi? The best ways to lace Freak waves
Dec 02 Locust neuron math The topology of NOT Elevens and nines on NPR Computational Biology in Nature	Nov 02 Football math A mathematical phase transition Ig Nobel math The next big thing Bust to boom at Rochester
Oct 02 Perfect Graphs Algorithmic Architecture Home on the Fractal Range Ants vote for Wolfram Neurons do Math More primes in the Times	Sep 02 The fifty-micron Möbius strip Baby Math on NPR Solving an Escher Puzzle Primes in the Times Post-mortem on the Geometry Center 143-Year-Old Problem
Jul-Aug 02 The number line is real. Steven Wolfram and the New York Times Math in the USSR A tough math problem in internet routing	Jun 02 Moving with VIGRE A new kind of science? Math teachers with no math New / old math probes the big bang A differential equation for organism growth Trig tables in verse
May 02 "Computers, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Mathematics" Flies, weeds and statistical mechanics The Erdös Prizes Nash sightings DNA Computer solves a hard problem Poincaré conjecture on NPR, and in the Times Sidewalk math on NPR	Apr 02 "Hi-IQ Math Hunks" Spinning eggs. Cellular automata at the seashore Math plagiarism More about Nash
Mar 02 More backstage math "Highly enjoyable and interesting people" Math on 42nd Street Fourier transform of the fossil record Large-scale sign error "The Shape of the Universe"	Feb 02 Polyhedron Man The Differential Equations of Pathogen Virulence More about John Nash Dynamic Catastrophe Theory
Jan 02 A beautiful movie Tiny computer factors 15 "The Not of Knots" A mathematician backstage Waves of measles	Dec 01 Living and breathing fractals More about hats Biomolecular finite-state automata A new Proof Mathematica - the show
Nov 01 Chinese characters Evolution's mathematical rhythm Multiplication in the brain Haven't we had this conversation before? Catastrophes in Nature Drunk on fractals	Oct 01 The Gordian unknot ``When will I use this math?'' The Abel prize Photo Solitons< /a>
Sep 01 Math Anxiety and Math Competence What is Math about? Tying and untying molecular knots Wiles at the Olympiad Is pi normal?	Jul-Aug 01 Poor Richard's Magic Squares Two Tony's for Proof "I prove a theorem and the house expands ..." ex on the Op-Ed page. Geometric Quantum Computation "Surprisingly Square" John Nash, and the movie
Jun 01 Computing an Organism Proof on NPR Flat and Flatter Why don't we have six limbs? Complexity too simple? Newton vs. Leibniz on the air Physiological rhythms Beyond the spherical cow	May 01 What color is my hat? `New Math' = Trouble Fun with Fermat Alan Alda, math wannabe Pulitzer for Proof Benjamin Peirce in The New Yorker ``A Beautiful Mind" -the movie
Apr 01 Math in The Lancet Solitons in matter Teenager finds new triangle theorem God, Steve Wolfram, etc. Calculus with Mother Hen	Mar 01 Unknotting the unknot Knots on the air Iannis Xenakis Jock Math I Jock Math II Chaos? Complexity?
Feb 01 Rereading Plimpton 322 Loving Math Infinitely How do fish swim? Digital Archimedes Math teachers are nerds ... not. Math and Fiction	Jan 01 Race to settle Catalan conjecture Prez mentions math The math melodrama "Beautiful Minds" Method and madness
Dec 00 That was the election that was. Fermat's Last Tango Recognition for Mathematics The butterfly effest? Math history on the web 31 Prime, 35 Past Prime?	Nov 00 The tiniest dodecahedron Strange attractors onstage Incompressible is incomprehensible A new Federal encryption algorithm The geometry of a fender-bender
Oct 00 Online Math Quiz October 17 Computation with 2-dimensional DNA More math into biology! Math genes? Slime-mould topology Retinal Calculus	Sep 00 Updating Ramanujan Making RNA think 5 + 2 = yellow Contentious disciples A Figure-8 knot in a protein Math in Los Angeles
Jul-Aug 00 Roach Applied Math Pinning down the Butterfly The Joy of Sharing	Jun 00 Math on Broadway Honeybee Calculus and Analytic Geometry Euler's Spinning Penny
May 00 $1,000,000 revisited Heinous math? The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem Flexible Math Meets Parental Rebellion	Apr 00 Double Bubbles More Monkey Math Squeeze in a few more? How to win $1,000,000 - the hard way
Mar 00 Pebbles to Microchips Beyond Quadratic Reciprocity Theory of Liquid Spikes	Feb 00 Math Snow Sculpture Wins Prize at Breckenridge Bubbles can sink in stout More on Parrando's Paradox "DNA Computer" More Chimp Math? The Curl of Agnesi
Jan 00 Microscopic predators and prey Heads you lose, tails you lose, but you win in the end Math + Art = Dada? Bees know best	Dec 99 The most influential lecture ever given in mathematics? Why does a negative times a negative equal a positive? Things that go bump
Nov 99 The crumpling catastrophe How to slice a tort? Beautiful dynamics	Oct 99 Counting three-dimensional crystals Unexpected behavior from fractal drums Fermat's Theorem and the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture No room on the family tree "... although mathematics and physics are different"
Aug-Sep 99 A new Mersenne prime! What's gray and does non-commutative algebra? What has six legs and does path integrals? Phase transitions in computation Phase transitions in traffic Unemployed but busy genius	Jul 99 Pollock's fractal drips Fractals in the family room Fractal antennas for cell-phones? Randomly ravenous rabbits? Music and Science "Multifractality in human heartbeat dynamics"
Jun 99 Written in stone "Mathematical genius Kurt Gödel" Unreadable but irresistible Nerds earn respect "Brain's Math Machine Traced to 2 Circuits" Math on the Web in MathML soon?	May 99 The music of the spheres Learn inference and logical rigor from a computer game? Ada and the Bernoulli Numbers Internet traffic is fractal
Apr 99 Space could be finite Playful thinking, serious mathematic "Alan Turing's Forgotten Ideas" "Why does the telephone cord always get twisted?" Neckties, a knotty mathematical problem? Math and popular culture The Lagrangian Codes The math of slime molds	Mar 99 Snow Sculpting with Mathematics A faster Web from group theory? Virtual rapids, fingerless flows, tournament seedings Unknots that can't be untied Symmetric singular sextic surface
Feb 99 Mathematics as NASA's fuel "A Multifractal Walk down Wall Street" "The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories" Ian Stewart's "Mathematcal Recreations" André Weil in the New York Times Magazine "The Geometry of the Universe" Tony Chan, Stan Osher: "innovators" Peter Griffin in the Times and on NPR Japanese temple geometry