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1999 Articles

December 1999

• Review of The Unknowable, by Gregory Chaitin, New Scientist, 18 December 1999

November 1999

• "Duchamp and Poincare Renew an Old Acquaintance," Science, 26 November 1999
• "Bayes Offers a 'New' Way to Make Sense of Numbers," Science, 19 November 1999
• "On a Roll," New Scientist, 6 November 1999

October 1999

• "Not for sale," New Scientist, 30 October 1999
• "Pi by the billions," Science News, 16 October 1999
• "Optimal paths to atomic clusters," Science News, 16 October 1999
• "Curving beyond Fermat's last theorem," Science News, 2 October 1999
• "Crunching Internet Security," Science News, 2 October 1999
• "Quantum Confidential", New Scientist, 2 October 1999

September 1999

• "Counting on Brains": Review of The Mathematical Brain,Nature, 9 September 1999
• "Conformal Mappings", American Scientist, September/October 1999
• "Computational Creationism", American Scientist, September/October 1999
• Review of What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math, by Brian Butterworth, American Scientist, September/October 1999
• "World on a String," The Sciences, September/October 1999
• "Kissing Cousins: The Numbers Show We're All One Big Happy Family," The Sciences, September/October 1999

August 1999

• "Proving the Perfection of the Honeycomb", Science, 27 August 1999
• "Class Talk", New Scientist, 28 August 1999
• "Agreeing on Strategies," Nature, 12 August 1999
• "Representing the World in a Computer" Review of The Nature of Mathematical Modeling,Science,6 August 1999

July 1999

• "Fermat's Last Theorem Extended," Science, 9 July 1999
• "Wrapping Up Scholarly Careers: At NYU, the Parallel Paths of 2 Mathematicians," Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 July 1999
• "Deviating from the line": Review of A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nasar Nature, 8 July 1999
• "Quantum Computing," The Sciences, July/August 1999
• "Practical Fractals", Scientific American, July 1999

June 1999

• "Hoffman's Erdos is number one", Nature, 17 June 1999
• "Fibonacci at Random," Science News,12 June 1999
• "Surfing the Solar System", Discover, June 1999
• "Goedel and the Limits of Logic," Scientific American, June 1999

May 1999

• "Mathematics Gets Institutionalized---Again," Science, 14 May 1999
• "Ada and the First Computer," Scientific American, May 1999

April 1999

• "Computing at the Edge: Capturing a flame's flicker, an ink jet's splatter, and other shifting shapes," Science News, 10 April 1999

February 1999

• "Jean Leray (1906-98): Master of applied mathematics,"Nature, 11 February 1999
• "Cracking a Prime Cryptosystem," Science News, 6 February 1999
• "The Scarcity of Cluster Primes," Science News, 6 February 1999
• "A Multifractal Walk down Wall Street,"Scientific American, February 1999

January 1999

• "L'Incroyable Efficacite des Mathematiques," La Recherche, January 1999
• "Will it Crack?", New Scientist, 23 January 1999; "Irish Lass Invents Crypto Code", Science 29 January 1999
• "A Quasicrystal Construction Kit," New Scientist,23 January 1999

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