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Math in the Media Archive

  
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Math in the Media 2003

December 2003

• Everything and More
• The Most Important Problem
• Who invented the electronic digital computer?
• Far East Math Flap
• Hilbert Hotel Onstage
• Auxin and the Fibonacci numbers

November 2003

• Why math books are hot.
• At home in dodecahedral space.
• Math on the golf course

October 2003

• Infinite Wisdom
• Wolfram in Washington
• African Institute
• Paul Wolfowitz, "former mathematician"

September 2003

• 15 milliseconds of fame
• Women at the EDGE
• Death and the heptagon
• A heap of trouble
• "Please, Pile On the Problems?"

July/August 2003

• New York State Regents Math Flap
• "Pure Math - Pure Joy"
• Gravitational caustics
• Where do we do math?
• Beyond Buckyballs

June 2003

• Math in Nature
• Imaginary numbers inThe Observer
• The Golden Mean in TheNew York Times
• The Poincaré Conjecture (cont.)
• Dog bites math

May 2003

• The Poincaré Conjecture
• Coot Math
• Wolfram at the Cooper-Hewitt
• "The Superformula"

April 2003

• This doughnut universe
• Knots in the Washington Post
• Anthrax: the math

March 2003

• 4 log 3 - a new cosmic constant?
• Ethnomath in the Times Magazine.
• Math reform in Russia.
• Quantum computing in The Economist

February 2003

• Splits at Clay
• Gödel in Science
• "Math's Wild and Crazy Guy"
• Figure skating
• Mathematical oncology
• Democracy and despotism

January 2003

• The Putnam in Time
• Too much pi?
• The best ways to lace
• Freak waves

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