| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
Science News
May 11, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Song-and-Dance Fermat Fermat's Last Tango, a musical based on the story of Fermat's last theorem and the quest to prove it, is cheerful, clever, and entertaining. Its varied music is engaging. It puts mathematics on display as an intensely human endeavor...   |
Science News
August 6, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Playing with Ruth-Aaron Pairs Mathematicians have taken the home run records of Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth and made the fascinating discovery that the numbers have more in common than just baseball. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
David Appell |
Math = beauty + truth / (really hard) Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try. |
Science News
November 14, 2008
Julie Rehmeyer |
How To (really) Trust A Mathematical Proof Mathematicians develop computer proof-checking systems in order to realize century-old dreams of fully precise, accurate mathematics. |
Science News
September 30, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Planes of Budapest From a weekly meeting of passionate Hungarian mathematicians in 1933, an elegant geometric problem emerges that continues to interest mathematicians today, nearly 70 years later... |
Science News
May 18, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
A Lawyer's Math Library Born in 1873, Kentucky lawyer William Marshall Bullitt throughout his long life believed firmly in the value of mathematics. His library of rare mathematical and astronomical books at the University of Louisville library is little-known but incredible... |
Science News
July 15, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Math Trek: Flirting with the Impossible Common sense by itself is too limiting for making progress in mathematics. New concepts arise out of leaps of imagination. And such out-of-the-box thinking puts mathematics into a rich intellectual landscape that it shares with physics, philosophy, literature, and art. |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2013
Cameron Hall |
Mathematical modeling in science and engineering This book, by Ismael Herrera and George Pinder, is intended as an introductory text to bridge the gap between scientists and mathematicians. |
Science News
January 28, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Math Plus Crime, TV Style More than 12 million people have been tuning in to see the latest episode of the CBS TV series Numb3rs, a crime series that features a mathematician as its superhero, incorporates genuine mathematical vocabulary, and displays the varied trappings of a mathematical life. |
Scientific American
June 20, 2005
Philip E. Ross |
Math without Words Numerical reasoning seems independent of language. |
