Talk Math—Sound Dirty
With the help of Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz, the Huffington Post explained six naughty-sounding math terms that are, in fact, quite innocent.
View ArticleA School Inspired by Math Circles
In the fall of 2015, a small, independent school will open in downtown San Francisco: the Juilliard of the mathematically precocious.
View ArticleThe Largest Fractal Ever Built
You can help make the MegaMenger, perhaps the largest fractal ever built, become a reality.
View ArticleA Mathematician Who Can Manage People
The New York Times profiles the world's 93rd richest person, mathematician and philanthropist James H. Simons.
View ArticleKadison-Singer Conjecture Proven
Dan Spielman, Adam Marcus, and Nikhil Srivastava this month take home SIAM's George Pólya Prize for their proof of the Kadison-Singer conjecture, five years in the making and inspired by efforts to...
View ArticleKlein's Models Collect Dust
Writing for Wired, Joshua Batson describes the nineteenth-century 3-D models on display in an MIT gallery.
View ArticleFrom Image Compression to CAT Scans
Writing for the Guardian, Alok Jha offers an ode to the usefulness and ubiquity of the Fourier transform.
View ArticleRamanujan Movie Moves to Production
After eight years of development, The Man Who Knew Infinity will go into production next month in the U.K.
View ArticleIn Praise of Serpentine Lines
Writing for Wired, Adam Mann explains what queueing theory has to say about grocery store check-out lines.
View ArticlePassword Advice Not Feasible in Practice
Researchers argue that widely cited principles of password security are not feasible when applied across a large body of passwords that protect multiple accounts.
View ArticleNo Need to Shun Malaysia Airlines, Says Silver
Nate Silver analyzes the data to answer the question on many air travelers' minds in a year that has so far seen Malaysia Airlines involved in two mysterious incidents.
View ArticleTrailer for Turing Biopic Released
The Imitation Game, an Alan Turing biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, isn't due out until November, but the trailer has been released.
View ArticleThe Perfect Way to Cut a Cake
Mathematician Julius Barbanel (Union College) and political scientist Steven Brams (New York University) have devised a cut-and-choose algorithm that allocates divisible goods in a way that is...
View ArticleGame Theory Applied to Semantics
Three philosophers and one mathematician are working together to use game theory to analyze communication and how it acquires meaning.
View ArticleWhat's Your Erdős-Bacon Number?
Erdős-Bacon, a documentary about the Small World Phenomenon, needs your help to see the light of day.
View ArticleWe Need to Know Math's Limitations
In a Forbes interview with Jordan Shapiro, Keith Devlin talks about twenty-first century math and how to make it accessible to more people.
View ArticleThe Real Story of the Fields Medal
Writing for the New York Times, Michael J. Barany debunks an apocryphal tale of the Fields Medal's origins and explains how the prize attained its Nobel-level status.
View ArticleTwitter Bots Reviewed
Writing for her Scientific American "Roots of Unity" blog, Evelyn Lamb gives a rundown of the Twitter bots she follows and rates them on a scale of 1 to 5 on novelty, aesthetics, and explicability.
View ArticleDon't Follow Directions; Make New Ones
Writing in Quartz, Jonathan Wai argues that anyone who wants to be rich or powerful or equipped to solve 21st-century problems should major in a STEM field.
View ArticleCocktail Party Conversation about the Fields Medal
Just in time for the weekend, here's your guide to making cocktail party chatter about the Fields Medal, courtesy of Evelyn Lamb's Roots of Unity blog.
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