Math Digest Summaries of Media Coverage of Math Edited by Allyn Jackson, AMS Contributors: Mike Breen (AMS), Claudia Clark (freelance science writer), Lisa

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2007 Math Digest

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December 2007

• "Marking the 300th year of mathematical giant," The Buffalo News, 30 December 2007
• "Elementary Math Grows Exponentially Tougher," Washington Post, 26 December 2007;
  "Educators divided by fractions debate," News Journal, 26 December 2007
• "Math teacher sings way to fame," The Enquirer, 20 December 2007
• "Research Highlights 2007," Nature, 20/27 December 2007
• "We Need to Invest in Math and Science Teachers," Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 December 2007;
  "Texas Offers a Model for Training Math and Science Teachers," Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 December 2007
• "Magic Carpets a Reality, Professor Says," Daily Telegraph, 19 December 2007;
  "Magic Carpets Possible, Mathematician Says," New York Sun, 21 December 2007
• "Why Math is Important," San Jose Mercury News, 18 December 2007
• "A Mysterious Mind": Review of The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt, New Scientist, 15 December 2007
• "The beauty of maths," BBC News, 14 December 2007
• Articles about math professor who was nominated for and won a Grammy
• "Obituary: Gene H. Golub 1932-2007," Nature, 13 December 2007
• "Do The Math: Business + Researchers = Results," Toronto Globe and Mail, 11 December 2007
• "New Generation of Square Dancers Intrigued By Its Math Concepts," Chicago Tribune, 10 December 2007
  "A Course in Combinatorial Choreography," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 April 2008
• "More time in class equals better math skills," USA Today, 10 December 2007
• "Knot Physics", 2007 Year in Ideas, New York Times, 9 December 2007
• "15 = 3 x 5: Photons do their first quantum math," Science News, 8 December 2007
• "US Expert Panel Sees Algebra As Key to Improvements in Math," Science, 7 December 2007
• "When Will Virtual Surgery Make the Cut?," Scientific American, 7 December 2007
• "Math Geek Software Smackdown: Sage v. Mathematica," Wired, 7 December 2007

November 2007

• Four reviews of mathematics books in American Scientist, November-December 2007
• "Reinventing the Wheel," Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 November 2007
• "'Professors of the Year' Bring Technical Disciplines Down to Earth," Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 November 2007
• "Lieber mit oder ohne Zucker? Ja, gerne! (Do you prefer with or without sugar? Yes, I do!)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 25 November 2007
• "App State math professor featured on 'Futurama' DVD," Asheville Citizen-Times, 25 November 2007;
  "The Geekiest Show on TV," Wired, 27 November 2007
• "Inventor makes shoe-shining easier", NewsOK.com, 26 November 2007
• "Mathematics plus": Review of The Jinn from Hyperspace, by Martin Gardner, New Scientist, 24 November 2007
• "Decoding Encrypted Internet Messages," National Public Radio, 24 November 2007
• "Famous math whizzes," BlueRidgeNow.com (Times-News Online), 21 November 2007
• "A Probable Killer?" Science, 16 November 2007
• "Study Compares States' Math and Science Scores With Other Countries," New York Times, 14 November 2007;
  "Illinois math, science scores compare favorably with world," Chicago Tribune, 14 November 2007;
  "City Schools Gain, Yet Still Lag Nation," Associated Press, 15 November 2007
• Articles about a claim that E₈ provides a "theory of everything", November 2007
• "Talk of the Town: A Firefighter's Theorem," The New Yorker, 12 November 2007
• "Fractals can't separate the fakes from the Pollocks," New Scientist, 10 November 2007
• "1 PhD + 9 Songs = 1 Cool Album," Globe and Mail Online, 10 November 2007
• "Good stories, Good Math," Science News Online, Week of 10 November 2007
• "Math Error Could Compromise Cryptographic Systems," Information Week, 9 November 2007;
  "Adding Math to List of Security Threats," The New York Times, 17 November 2007;
  "Microprocesor math bugs pose security risk, warns cryptographer," Computerworld, 19 November 2007
• "Math on Fire," Science News Online, Week of 3 November 2007
• "Scientists Fete China's Supreme Polymath," Science, 2 November 2007
• "Theoretical Plumber," Popular Science, November 2007

October 2007

• "Primed for Success," Smithsonian, Fall 2007
• "The square root of art", University of South Florida Oracle, 30 October 2007
• "Getting Students Through Remedial Math Is a Constant Struggle, but This College Keeps Trying," Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 October 2007
• Articles on re-analyzing model of albatross flight, October 2007
• "Some turtles win the old shell game," Toronto Star, 24 October 2007
• Articles on Wolfram Prize awarded to undergraduate, October and November 2007
• "Math is more than numbers," San Jose Mercury News, 21 October 2007
• "The Ignobility of Wrinkles," Science News, week of 20 October 2007
• "Study on math, science should strike fear in our hearts", Kansas City Star, 17 October 2007
• Articles on the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics, October 2007
• "Cooperation counts for math professor," Boston Globe, 15 October 2007
• "Kreuzzug gegen schlampige Mathematik (Crusade against slovenly mathematics)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 October 2007
• "A Prayer for Archimedes," MathTrek: Science News Online, 6 October 2007;
  "Eureka!" New Scientist, 6 October 2007
• "A Society Makes a Logical---and Symbolic---Move to Cambridge U. Press," Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 October 2007
• "Ben Green to receive 2007 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize." The Hindu, 4 October 2007
• "The powerhouse 'pirate' of the math classroom", The Boston Globe, 1 October 2007
• "Making the Grade," Discover, October 2007

September 2007

• "Sorting Out the Genome," American Scientist, September-October 2007
• "The fine art of painting by the numbers," Denver Post, 30 September 2007;
  "Math adds unique dimension to show," Rocky Mountain News, 5 October 2007
• "Les demoiselles d'Avignon", New Scientist, 29 September 2007
• "Mathematician puts people back into the equation," The Gazette (Montreal, Canada), 29 September 2007
• Coverage of math video of Möbius transformations, September-December 2007
• "Local Politics, Web Money," The Wall Street Journal, 28 September 2007
• "Bellas geheimes Seminar (Bella's secret seminar)", Die Zeit, 27 September 2007
• "Ups and downs of a senator scientist": Review of The Volterra Chronicles: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician 1860-1940 by Judith R. Goodstein, Nature, 27 September 2007
• "Business by numbers," The Economist, 25 September 2007
• "Microsoft Says Excel 2007 Produces Math Errors," Information Week, 26 September 2007;
  "Excel 2007 flunks some math problems," Computerworld, 26 September 2007
• Articles about math testing scores, 25-26 September 2006
• "In Theory, Diamondbacks Are Winning Way Too Often," New York Times, 23 September 2007;
  "Why a dead Greek mathematician says the D-Backs won't win it all," Pensacola News Journal, 5 October 2007
• "Women, Girls, and Math," NPR Science Friday, 21 September 2007
• "Fast Computers and the Music of Math" National Public Radio, 20 September 2007
• "A Lust for Numbers": Review of The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt, New York Times, 16 September 2007
• "Reality by numbers," New Scientist, 15 September 2007
• "Penetrating the mumbo-jumbo": Review of The Tiger that Isn't, by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot New Scientist, 15 September 2007
• "Using Math to Track Terrorists," Science Friday (NPR), 14 September 2007
• "Ein Neuling in der Walhalla (A newbie in the Valhalla)", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13 September 2007
• "Kristalle für Köln (Crystals for Cologne)", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 September 2007
• "May the Best Team Win," Science News Online, 8 September 2007
• "Beautiful Minds," The Atlantic, September 2007
• "D'où viennent les maths? (Where does math come from?)", Science et Vie, September 2007
• "Déjà Vu Disks," Scientific American, September 2007

August 2007

• "It all adds up for Alba," Daily Telegraph, 29 August 2007.
  "Imaginary numbers," The Guardian, 1 September 2007.
  "Perfect strut," Time, 17 September 2007
• "Digital detectives discern Photoshop fakery," Christian Science Monitor, 29 August 2007
• "Why I've learned to love the novel," New Scientist, 25 August 2007
• "A beautiful voyage": Review of A Certain Ambiguity: A mathematical novel, by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal, New Scientist, 25 August 2007
• "Journal presents a mathematical conundrum," Nature, 23 August 2007
• "Beyond definition: When I say gerbe I don't mean grebe", The Guardian, 21 August 2007
• "For Wall Street's Math Brains, Miscalculations," Washington Post, 21 August 2007
• "August Ambush: How Market Turmoil Waylaid the 'Quants'," The Wall Street Journal, 7 September 2007
• "Stars of the Sahara", New Scientist, 18 August 2007
• "Size Matters: The Hidden Mathematics of Life," Weekend Edition Saturday, National Public Radio, 18 August 2007
• "Ideas & Trends: The Myth, The Math, The Sex," New York Times, 12 August 2007;
  "The Basics: The Median, the Math and the Sex," New York Times, 19 August 2007
• "Social science goes virtual": Review of two books on modeling in the social sciences, Nature, 9 August 2007
• Articles about Danica McKellar's math book for girls, August 2007
• Articles about America COMPETES Act, August 2007
• "Can we learn to love uncertainty?", New Scientist, 6 August 2007
• "Indie rocker mixes math with music," San Jose Mercury News, 6 August 2007
• Articles on US team in China Girl's Mathematical Olympiad, August 2007
• "Cloudy Crystal Balls," Science News, week of 4 August 2007;
  "Gambling on Tomorrow," The Economist, 16 August 2007
• "Ambiguity and Paradox in Mathematics," Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 August 2007

July 2007

• "How Many Ways Can You Spell V1@gra,?" American Scientist, July-August 2007
• "The Shape We're In": Review of The Poincaré Conjecture by Donal O'Shea, American Scientist, July-August 2007
• "Harmonious Relations": Review of Music: A Mathematical Offering by David J. Benson, American Scientist, July-August 2007
• "Mathematicians Propose New Model for Cancer Growth," Voice of America, 31 July 2007
• "Chasing Down Zeros at Math Camp," Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2007
• "Opponents Pay a Painful Price in Walking Bonds," The New York Times, 29 July 2007
• "Wenn Wähler Noten geben dürften (If voters could give grades)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 29 July 2007
• "Verschiedene Arten von Unendlichkeit (Different Kinds of Infinity)": Review of Eins, zwei, drei ... unendlich, by Rudolf Kippenhahn, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 29 July 2007
• "Less proof, more truth": Review of How Mathematicians Think, by William Byers, New Scientist, 28 July 2007
• "The longest divisions," FT.com (Financial Times online), 28 July 2007;
  "A beautiful mind," New Statesman, 23 August 2007
• "Group sees glimpses of divinity in math," The Boston Globe, 28 July 2007
• Articles about how mathematics helps prepare students in college science, July and August 2007
• "Bush Awards Science, Technology Medals," Associated Press, 27 July 2007;
  "U-M math professor to be honored at White House," Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2007
• "Some assembly needed," Nature, 26 July 2007
• "Mathematik im Dienst der Praxis (Mathematics in practical service)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 25 July 2007
• "Proof and beauty": Interview with Christopher Zeeman, New Scientist, 21 July 2007
• "Mathematical Lives of Plants," Science News, 21 July 2007
• "From e to eternity", New Scientist, 21 July 2007
• "Focus on math: Wizards put brains to the test," Deseret Morning News, 17 July 2007
• "Visual mathematics---math for art students," Diverse, 13 July 2007
• Articles about modeling the shape of a Möbius strip, July 2007
• Articles about a conference for William Thurston: "In Hyperbolic Space, Size Matters"; "Pricey Proof Keeps Gaining Support"; "Bizarre Pool Shots Spiral to Infinity"; and "That's Not Some Knot Sum!", Science, 6 July 2007
• "Swarm Theory: ants, bees, and birds teach us how to cope with a complex world," National Geographic, July 2007
• "A Little Privacy, Please," Scientific American, July 2007

June 2007

• "The hunter and the hunted": Review of Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion, by Paul J. Nahin, New Scientist, 30 June 2007
• "Scholars juggle dynamics of mathematics at institute," Contra Costa Times, 29 June 2007
• "Ein Modell der Internet-Topologie (A Model for Internet Topology)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 27 June 2007
• "John Todd, math pioneer and Caltech prof, dies at 96," San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 2007
  "John Todd, 96; Caltech professor pioneered use of computers in math," Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2007
• "A Perfect Match at Mudd," Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 June 2007
• "'If I have trouble writing, it's a sign that I don't understand,'" Guardian Unlimited, 18 June 2007
• "The Story of the Archimedes Manuscript", Spiegel Online, 22 June 2007
• "Das Zittern des Fälschers (The trembling of the forger)," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 June 2007
• "Keine angst vor Festenbindungen (No worries about tight laces)," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 June 2007
• "Gefahr für asymmetrische Kryptosysteme (Danger for asymmetric cryptosystems)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13 June 2007
• "Musical Illusions," Science News Math Trek, 9 June 2007
• "Unbelievable truths": Review of Nonplussed: Mathematical proof of implausible ideas, by Julian Havil, New Scientist, 9 June 2007
• "Sudoku helps hone logic", Toronto Star, 7 June 2007;"Die hohe Schule des Sudoku (The higher study of Sudoku)", Spiegel Online, 13 June 2007;"Sudoku flexes math muscles", Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 25 June 2007;"Sudoku für Fortgeschrittene (Sudoku for the Advanced)", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30 June/1 July 2007
• "Hip-Hop Math", WTVG-TV (Toledo), 5 June 2007
• "Math instruction a complex equation with many wrong answers," Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 June 2007
• "New Spelling Bee Champ Prefers Math, Music," KTVU News, 1 June 2007;
  "Home-Schooled Student Wins Spelling Bee", National Public Radio, 1 June 2007;
  "Spelling champ turns focus to math at UNL camp," Lincoln Journal Star, 11 June 2007
• "Erinnerung an einen fast vergessenen Mathematiker (Reminiscence of an almost forgottten mathematician)": Review of Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to his Life and Work, by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 6 June 2007
• "`Beweise sind in der Mathematik nicht das Wichtigste'" ("`Proofs are not the most important thing in mathematics'"): Interview with Stephen Smale, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 6 June 2007
• "Take a Number: Kids show math insights without instruction," Science News, 2 June 2007
• "Silicon Smackdown," Scientific American, June 2007
• "Breaking Network Logjams", Scientific American, June 2007
• "Into the Fold," Smithsonian, June 2007
• "Blinded by Science," Discover, June 2007

May 2007

• Mathematics on Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition, National Public Radio, May-July 2007
• "Fat Tails," American Scientist, May-June 2007
• "The Most Dangerous Equation," American Scientist, May-June 2007
• "Three-square": Review of The Pythagorean Theorem, by Eli Maor, New Scientist, 26 May 2007
• "'Reform Math' Leaves Some Perplexed," CBS Evening News, 26 May 2007;
  "Battle Over Math in New Jersey Drives Off a New Schools Chief," The New York Times, 14 June 2007
• "Why Mathematical Models Just Don’t Add Up," Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 May 2007
• "Newsmakers---Movers," Science, 25 May 2007
• "Commencement 2007---Some Noteworthy Graduates," Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 May 2007
• "Swedish University, Alleging Culture Clash, Forces Out 2 Tenured Foreign Professors," Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 May 2007
• "Awards for Eugene math whiz keep adding up," The Oregonian, 21 May 2007;
  "Hot Competition," Science News, 26 May 2007
• "Der Zufall führt manchmal auch ans Ziel (Randomness sometimes also leads to the goal)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 20 May 2006
• "Time enough for countin'": Interview with Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, New Scientist, 19 May 2007
• "A fine fight": Review of The Poincaré Conjecture, by Donal O'Shea, New Scientist, 19 May 2007
• "Hedge fund guru: Improve U.S. math skill," Associated Press, The Houston Chronicle, 19 May 2007
• "Muslim World of Mathematics," The Muslim Weekly, 18-24 May, 2007
• "The Prosecutor's Fallacy," The New York Times, 16 May 2007
• "Is that painting real? Ask a mathematician," Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2007
• "Designers did the math before starting their business," Akron Beacon Journal, 6 May 2007
• "Sensor Sensibility," Science News, 5 May 2007
• "The Mathematical Lives of Plants," Science News Online, Week of 5 May 2007
• "Puzzle Me This," Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 May 2007
• "Shivering With the Sun," Science, 4 May 2007
• "Report Urges More Coordination To Improve Science and Math," Science, 4 May 2007
• "'Invisible' Objects Closer," Photonics.com, 3 May 2007;"Envision This: Mathematicians Design Invisible Tunnel," Scientific American.com, 4 May 2007
• "Count down to 02:03:04 on 05/06/07," USA Today, 1 May 2007;
  "Sequences for Numbers Nerds," The New York Sun, 4 May 2007
• Math Blogs Revisited: Carnival of Mathematics, n-Category Café, Not Even Wrong, May 2007

April 2007

• "What You Know About Math," The Post-Standard (Syracuse), 30 April 2007
• "Fast Routing in Road Networks with Transit Nodes," Science, 27 April 2007
  "Lost in transportation," Science News, 5 May 2007
• "Professor sees magic, mystery in mathematics," San Francisco Chronicle, 27 April 2007
• "Of beer and bubbles: the formula for a perfect pint," Reuters, 27 April 2007;
  "Go figure: Use math to get the perfect head of beer," iTWire, 28 April 2007;
  "Finding and formulating the fizz factor," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 April 2007
• "A sense of proportion," Nature, 26 April 2007
• "Added Dimensions to Grain Growth," Nature, 26 April 2007
• "Senate OKs bill to boost science and math skills," Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2007;
  "Senate OKs Funding for Math, Science," KOCO-TV (Oklahoma City), 26 April 2007
• "Mathematicians set Chinese test," BBC News, 26 April 2007
• "Founder of East Setauket management company uses math-based formulas to select investments," Newsday, 25 April 2007
• "Britannica Blog," Britannica.com, 24 April and 2 May 2007
• "Book Loft": Interview with author Walter Isaacson, GreaterBoston, WGBH (Boston PBS-TV), 23 April 2007
• "Math fest hosted at Google charms kids who count," San Jose Mercury News, 23 April 2007
• "Warwick couple cleans the deck in poker," Providence Journal, 19 April 2007
• "Impossible things for breakfast," New Scientist, 14 April 2007
• "9 states to give common math test," Miami Herald, 10 April 2007;
  "States to Give Common Math Test, Based on Shared Standards," WISH-TV, 10 April 2007
• "Ein Nestor der Mathematik: Zum 90. Geburtstag des Zürcher Mathematikers Beno Eckmann (Doyen of Mathematics: The 90th Birthday of Zurich Mathematician Beno Eckmann)," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 10 April 2007
• "The Countless Achievements of a Math Master," The Washington Post, 9 April 2007;
  "A Math Great Gets His Due," National Public Radio, 14 April 2007;
  "Eulers Leben und Werk (Euler's Life and Work)": Review of four books about Leonhard Euler, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2 May 2007
• "Have prodigy, will travel", New Scientist, 7 April 2007
• "Jaron's World," Discover, April 2007;
  "Körper in vier dimensionen (Bodies in four dimensions)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 29 April 2007
• "The Memory Hacker," Popular Science, April 2007
• "Eraser" and "Swing" ExxonMobil ads, The Science of a Drive, April 2007

March 2007

• "Turning the tide," Cambridge Alumni Magazine, Number 51, Easter Term 2007
• Math Digest Special Feature: Math Blogs on the Internet (Posted March 2007)
• "Meet Mr. Polytope": Review of King of Infinite Space, by Siobhan Roberts, American Scientist, March-April 2007
• "Multiscale Modeling in Biology," American Scientist, March-April 2007
• Articles about the mapping of the exceptional Lie group E₈, March 2007
• Articles about 2007 Abel Prize winner Srinivasa Varadhan, March and April 2007
• "Paul Joseph Cohen, 72; leading mathematician," Associated Press, 31 March 2007;
  "Paul J. Cohen, Mathematics Trailblazer, Dies at 72," New York Times, 2 April 2007
• "Math Circles Inspire Students," Science News Online, 31 March 2007
• "The chance of a lifetime": Interview with Persi Diaconis, New Scientist, 24 March 2007
• "Euler's revolution," New Scientist, 24 March 2007
• "The True Price of a Human Organ," Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 March 2007
• "Is Beauty Truth and Truth Beauty?": Review of Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry, by Ian Stewart, Scientific American, 18 March 2007
• "The Next Generation," Science News, 17 March 2007
• "U.S. Math Tests Don't Line Up," Science, 16 March 2007
• "There Ought to Be a Lawsuit," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 March 2007
• "'Jeopardy': What is a three-way tie, Alex?," MSNBC.com, 16 March 2007;
  "Jeopardy! has a first three-way tie," The West Australian, 18 March 2007
• "Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime," New York Times, 13 March 2007
• "Students learn to rhythmic beat of rap," NCTimes.com, 12 March 2007
• "Functional Family: Mock theta mystery solved," Science News, 10 March 2007;
  "A flash of insight brings answers," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 13 March 2007;
  "Zahlentheoretiker lösen jahrzehntealtes Rätsel: Erklärung der `Mock-Theta-Funktionen' (Number theorists solve hundred year old puzzle: Explanation of 'mock theta functions')," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 March 2007
• "Numbers Game", The Chicago Sports Review, 6 March 2007
• "Lessons From 'Math Dude' Add Cool to the Equation," Washington Post, 4 March 2007
• Articles about Pi Day, March 2007
• "Equations as icons", Physicsweb, March 2007
• "Graph Theory and Teatime," Scientific American, March 2007

February 2007

• Articles about discovery of Penrose tilings in Islamic art and architecture, February 2007
• "Navigation als Kunst und Wissenschaft (Navigation as art and science)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 25 February 2007
• "Rhymes with good reason," National Public Radio, 25 February 2007
• "New Baseball Statistic, With a Nod to an Old Standard," New York Times, 25 February 2007
• "The angel that flew to the moon," New Scientist, 24 February 2007
• "Coming Soon: 'The Number 24'," The Wall Street Journal, 23 February 2007
• "Better Geometry Through Chemistry," Science, 23 February 2007
• "Other Lives": Review of two books about Pythagoras, London Review of Books, 22 February 2007
• "Bringing Cartoons to Life," Nature, 22 February 2007
• "Picture imperfect," news@nature.com, 19 February 2007
• "Hot Type," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 February 2007
• "Math prodigy corrects Discovery Place," Charlotte Observer, 8 February 2007
• "Closing the Math Gap," CBS Evening News, 7 February 2007
• "A sporting chance of beating the bookies," New Scientist, 6 February 2007
• "Here's the proof: Math + music mix for band's front man," Lexington Herald-Leader, 4 February 2007;
  "The Apples in Stereo," Soundcheck, WNYC, 15 February 2007
• "Painting by numbers": Review of The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers, by Alfred Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann, New Scientist, 3 February 2007
• "The Crayola Einstein," The Other Paper, 1 February 2007
• "She's Got Their Number," Fast Company, February 2007
• "Art: Of Doilies and Disease," Discover, February 2007
• "What We Don't Know", Wired, February 2007
• "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007," Harvard Business Review, February 2007

January 2007

• "When Averages Hide Individual Differences in Clinical Trials," American Scientist, January-February 2007
• "Math circles primed for idol's 300th birthday," Philadelphia Inquirer, 29 January 2007
• "The Thinkers: He brings higher mathematics to bear on high finance," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29 January 2007
• "Den kleinsten Kreis um sehr viele Punkte finden (The smallest circle to find many points)," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28 January 2007
• "Viel Mathematik ganz kurz (Much mathematics all at once)": Review of Fünf Minuten Mathematik (Five Minutes of Mathematics), by Ehrhard Behrends, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28 January 2007
• "The Geometry of Music," Time, 26 January 2007
• "Professor Files Lawsuit, Then Wins Tenure," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 January 2007
• "Figure studies: Missouri sculptor melds art and mathematics in his world-renowned work," The Kansas City Star, 20 January 2007
• "Math Play," Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, National Public Radio, 19 January 2007;
  "The Math Rookie Is a Girl, A Big Problem for the Geeks," The New York Times, 25 January 2007
• "Conviction by Numbers," Nature, 18 January 2007
• "Math Panel Issues Its First Report, But Holds Off on Policy Proposals," Education Week, 17 January 2007
• "Pitt math professor took best shot at cannonball conjecture," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 16 January 2007
• "Israeli, American share Wolf Prize in Mathematics," The Jerusalem Post, 15 January 2007;
  "Wolf Prize in Mathematics Awarded to HU's Harry Furstenberg," IsraelNationalNews.com, 16 January 2007;
  "Wolf Foundation recognizes achievements in math, physics," Associated Press, 18 January 2007;
  "Awards: Wolf Prizes." Newsmakers, Science, 26 January 2007, page 443.
• "When Number Proofs Are Done by Computer, Mightn't Some Err?," The Wall Street Journal, 12 January 2007
• "A New Standard for Measuring Doctoral Programs," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 January 2007
• "Math Convention," Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, 6 January 2007
• "Martin Kruskal, pre-eminent applied mathematician, at 81," The Star-Ledger, 5 January 2007;
  "M. Kruskal, 81, mathematician's wave research rippled through sciences," The Los Angeles Times, 6 January 2007
• Recent columns by "The Numbers Guy" Carl Bialik, The Wall Street Journal Online, January 2007
• "Top 100 Science Stories of 2006. Number 8 Mathematics: Fundamental Problem Solved After 100 Years," Discover, January 2007

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