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Science News
April 30, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Works in Progress Part of a mathematical education should include some sense of what is known and what is not yet known (and may never be known) and what progress is being made in creating new mathematics.   |
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
April 8, 2006 |
Math Focus on Internet Security A link that highlights the crucial role that mathematics plays in the development of cryptosystems. |
Scientific American
August 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Hypersphere Exotica: Kervaire Invariant Problem Has a Solution! A 45-year-old problem on higher-dimensional spheres is solved -- probably |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Robert W. Lucky |
Is Math Still Relevant? The queen of the sciences may someday lose its royal status |
Science News
January 12, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Small Infinity, Big Infinity Infinity can be big or bigger, countable or not. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
Robert W. Lucky |
Math Blues Has mathematics disappeared behind the screens of our monitors, as have so many other subjects since engineering began to center increasingly on writing software? |
Science News
August 14, 2004 |
Women in Mathematics From Maria Gaetana Agnesi to Lai-Sang Young, these Web pages provide biographies of prominent women in mathematics. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 1999
Louis Loeffler |
The Cruncher 2.0 - Spreadsheets: A Rich Learning Experience ...Using spreadsheets facilitates student understanding of mathematical concepts and can assist in achieving the NCTM standards, as well as address concerns raised by the TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study) report... |
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
November 29, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
The Cow in the Classroom There is a difference between mathematical exercises disguised as episodes of everyday life and real mathematics applied in the real world. It's a distinction that's not always apparent in the mathematics classroom. |
Science News
July 1, 2006 |
Science Safari: Mathematical Imagery This set of web pages features albums of math-inspired and mathematically-generated artworks. |
Science News
March 4, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
The Limits of Mathematics No matter what the system of axioms or rules is, there will always be some assertion that can be neither proved nor invalidated within the system. |
Science News
June 12, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Groups, Graphs, and Erdos Numbers Perhaps more than any other mathematician in modern times, Paul Erdos (1913-1996) epitomized the strength and breadth of mathematical collaboration. |
Science News
April 14, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Euler's Beautiful Equation Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, was born 300 years ago on April 15, 1707. He discovered the equation e ip = -1. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Michelle Press |
Scientific American Reviews: Why You Are Not Your Brain Also: books on monks and monkeys and miraculous anticipation |
Scientific American
February 19, 2006 |
What is Godel's Proof? Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem demonstrates that mathematics contains true statements that cannot be proved. His proof achieves this by constructing paradoxical mathematical statements. |
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
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
April 19, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
The Colors of an Equation's Roots A few artists have taken advantage of the techniques used to visualize mathematics to create aesthetically pleasing patterns and intriguing artworks. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2010
Mark Anderson |
Perelman and Majorana: Two Tales of Genius A new biography of geometry genius Grigory Perelman is enjoyable, but not as successful as one of unheralded physicist Ettore Majorana |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2001 |
Three Applications Let Students Explore Math From ImagiWorks, Inc. comes ImagiMath, a suite of three mathematics applications for Palm hand-held devices. The ImagiGraph application serves as a mathematics visualizer; ImagiCalc is a full-featured calculator; and ImagiSolve is a mathematics worksheet and equation solver... |
Science News
August 5, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Math Lit Cryptography and other mathematical topics play key roles in several recent novels. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears... PopCo, by Scarlett Thomas... |
Information Today
June 27, 2013 |
Mathematics Database zbMATH Rolls Out Enhancements zbMATH, which is the largest database for publications in the pure and applied mathematics fields, has more than 3 million references to international mathematics publications. |
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. |
Science News
November 4, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Mathematical Art on Display The term "mathematical art" usually conjures up just one name---that of Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher. But the realm of mathematical art is far wider and more diverse than most people realize... |
Science News
December 2, 2006 |
Timeline: From the November 28, 1936, issue Commonplace transformed into beauty by frost... Behavior of living cells linked to mathematics... |
Scientific American
June 20, 2005
Philip E. Ross |
Math without Words Numerical reasoning seems independent of language. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Prachi Patel |
Math and Gender Women do best in math wherever women do best in everything else |
