Math Digest

Summaries of Media Coverage of Math

Edited by Allyn Jackson, AMS
Contributors: Mike Breen (AMS), Claudia Clark (freelance science writer), Lisa DeKeukelaere (2004 AMS Media Fellow), Annette Emerson (AMS), Brie Finegold (University of Arizona), Baldur Hedinsson (2009 AMS Media Fellow), and Ben Polletta (Drexel University)

2012 Math Digest

April

• Blogs on the best geometric shape for a doughnut, and a "toroflux"
• "For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 April 2012
• "Now that's calculated! Physicist writes four-page math paper to beat $400 traffic ticket, Daily Mail, 16 April 2012, and "Victory of science over traffic ticket debunked," U-T San Diego, 23 April 2012
• "Cancer research wins top prize in science contest, " Science News, 7 April 2012
• "Pi master relates secrets of recall," Science News, 7 April 2012
• "New IBM App Presents Nearly 1,000 Years of Math History," Wired, 6 April 2012
• "Turing's Ideas Blossom," Science, 6 April 2012
• "Logical Liars, Paradoxical Politicians," ABC News, 3 April 2012
• "How Long Is A Piece Of String?, " WGBH-TV, 2 April 2012
• "Quantum Gravity in Flatland," Scientific American, April 2012

March

• Blogs on a proof of the Virtual Haken Conjecture and on the Abel Prize
• "Geometer Tries a New Angle: Leading a College," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 March 2012
• The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of," The New York Times, 26 March 2012
• Coverage of the 2012 Abel Prize
• "Q&A Barry Mazur: The maths raconteur," Nature, 22 March 2012
• "Peterborough Math Teacher Saves Choking Student."WMUR-TV, 16 March 2012
• Articles about origami exhibition at UCSC and about Erik Demaine, one of the exhibitors
• "ACM Awards Judea Pearl the Turing Award for Work on Artificial Intelligence," PC Magazine, 15 March 2012
• "The Best of Our Knowledge," WAMC, 14 March 2012
• "Sydney has our tower!," The Age, 12 March 2012
• "Khan Academy: Model for future of U.S. education?" 60 Minutes, 11 March 2012
• "Raytheon math exhibit to open at Smithsonian," Boston Herald, 9 March 2012
  "Using math in the real world adds up to a cool job," The Washington Post, 17 April 2012
• "Demi Moore Enters Celebrity Math Rehab," The Spoof!, 9 March 2012

February

• Brie Finegold summarizes blogs on Chaos theory and weather forecasting, and Recent difficulties with RSA
• "Math equations could save drug-overdose patients," ABC Action News, Salt Lake Tribune, 28 February 2012
• "Road Scholars Solve Pothole Problem." Science, 24 February 2012
• "Playing with infinity on Rikers Island," Prospect, 22 February 2012
• "Finally, The Physics Of The Ponytail Explained," Weekend Edition Saturday, National Public Radio, 18 February 2012
• How Companies Learn Your Secrets, New York Times Magazine, 16 February 2012
• "Seven equations that rule your world," New Scientist, 13 February 2012
• "Big Ideas Monday: Maths," ABC-Canberra, 13 February 2012
• "At the Blackjack Ball, Card Counter Dr. Edward Thorp Is King," Daily Beast and Newsweek, 13 February 2012
• "The Age of Big Data," New York Times, 12 February 2012
• "Self as Symbol," Science News, 11 February 2012
• "Born in the USSR," Inside Higher Ed, 9 February 2012
• "An Israeli professor's 'Eureqa' moment," Haaretz.com, 3 February 2012
• "Beauty, Truth, Math, Art," Studio360 and National Public Radio, 3 February 2012

January

• Blogs about the Elsevier boycott
• "Wall Street's Sexiest Model," Forbes, 27 January 2012
• "A Math Study Provides Hints About the Game’s Gender Gap," The New York Times, 21 January 2012
• "Better mathematics boosts image-processing algorithm," New Scientist, 20 January 2012
• "Plot Thickens on Oscar Ballot," The Wall Street Journal, 14 January 2012
• "Spot check." The Economist, 14 January 2012
• "Pasta Graduates from Alphabet Soup to Advanced Geometry," The New York Times, 9 January 2012
• "Blue Valley West freshman wins $10k in math contest," The Kansas City Star, 10 January 2012
• "A Unique Expression Of Love For Math," NPR's All Things Considered, 10 January 2012
• "Mathematician claims breakthrough in Sudoku puzzle," Nature, 6 January 2012
• "Supercomputer Wins Jeopardy!," Discover, January 2012

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