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Tony Phillips' Take on Math in the Media A monthly survey of math news

Math in the Media Archive

Math in the Media 2002

December

• Locust neuron math
• The topology of NOT
• Elevens and nines on NPR
• Computational Biology in Nature

• Football math
• A mathematical phase transition
• Ig Nobel math
• The next big thing
• Bust to boom at Rocheste

October

• Perfect Graphs
• Algorithmic Architecture
• Home on the Fractal Range
• Ants vote for Wolfram
• Neurons do Math
• More primes in the Times

September

• The fifty-micron Möbius strip
• Baby Math on NPR
• Solving an Escher Puzzle
• Primes in the Times
• Post-mortem on the Geometry Center
• 143-Year-Old Problem

July/August

• The number line is real.
• Steven Wolfram and the New York Times
• Math in the USSR
• A tough math problem in internet routing

June 2002

• Moving with VIGRE
• A new kind of science?
• Math teachers with no math
• New / old math probes the big bang
• A differential equation for organism growth
• Trig tables in verse

May 2002

• "Computers, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Mathematics''
• Flies, weeds and statistical mechanics
• The Erdös Prizes
• Nash sightings
• DNA Computer solves a hard problem
• Poincaré conjecture on NPR, and in the Times
• Sidewalk math on NPR

April 2002

• ``Hi-IQ Math Hunks''
• Spinning eggs.
• Cellular automata at the seashore
• Math plagiarism
• More about Nash

March 2002

• More backstage math
• "Highly enjoyable and interesting people"
• Math on 42nd Street
• Fourier transform of the fossil record
• Large-scale sign error
• "The Shape of the Universe"

February 2002

• Polyhedron Man
• The Differential Equations of Pathogen Virulence
• More about John Nash
• Dynamic Catastrophe Theory

January 2002

• A beautiful movie
• Tiny computer factors 15
• "Knot Possible"
• A mathematician backstage
• Waves of measles