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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...   |
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
October 2, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Proof by Computer Whether mathematicians now regard the order-10 question as settled depends on how comfortable they are with the notion of such a large, complex, computer-based proof... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
April 5, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Creeping Up on Riemann Mathematicians move a step closer to unraveling the mystery of prime numbers. |
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
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
March 1, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Mathematical Tragedy Sophie Germain had a bold program to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. |
Science News
February 23, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: An Attack on Fermat Sophie Germain was the first to propose a realistic plan to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. |
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. |
Science News
August 19, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Goldbach's Prime Pairs Evenly divisible only by themselves and one, primes are a rich source of speculative ideas that mathematicians often find simple to state but difficult to prove. The Goldbach conjecture is a prime example of such a conundrum. |
Science News
February 16, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Math on Display Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork. |
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
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
December 24, 2005 |
Math Meets the Simpsons This Web site provides an episode-by-episode listing of references to math in The Simpsons. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 17, 2010
Patricia Deubel |
Web 2.0 in Instruction: Adding Spice to Math Education Mathematics lags behind other subjects in class-centered web 2.0 communities for children, and an even larger lag in informal, recreational communities. |
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. |
Science News
June 16, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Bubbles and Math Olympiads Predicting the geometric shapes of soap bubble clusters can lead to surprisingly difficult mathematical problems... |
BusinessWeek
January 23, 2006
Stephen Baker |
The NSA: Security in Numbers The techno-spy agency has a greater need than ever for American math talent, but recruiting in the age of Google is a lot tougher. |
