Math Digest Summaries of Media Coverage of Math

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Math Digest Contributors Allyn Jackson, AMS Kathryn Leonard, Brown University Elizabeth Moisan, Kaiser Permanente Benjamin Stein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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2000 Articles

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December 2000

• "Brief Life of a Mathematician," The Hindu, 31 December 2000
• "Visions of Infinity," Science News, 23 & 30 December 2000
• "Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama," Science, 22 December 2000
• "The Manifold Ways of Perception," by H. Sebastian Seung, et al. Science, 22 December 2000
• "Communicating Statistical Information," Ulrich Hoffrage, et al, Science, 22 December 2000
• "Life is a Game of Numbers," Nature, 21/28 December 2000
• "Swimming in Flatsea," Nature, 14 December 2000 and
  "Silk and soap settle a century-old flap," Science News, 16 December 2000
• "Taking the Measure of the Wildest Dance on Earth," Science, 8 December 2000
• "The quantum centennial," by Anton Zeilinger. Nature, 7 December 2000
• "The Lion and the Lamb Find Closure," by Alan Hastings. Science, 1 December 2000
• "Are Mathematicians Past Their Prime at 35?" Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 December 2000
• "Lofty Lingo Boils Down to Dissection of Traffic," San Francisco Chronicle, 8 January 2001;
  "The Physics of Gridlock," The Atlantic Monthly, December 2000

November 2000

• Review of The Math Gene, by Keith Devlin, American Scientist, November-December 2000
• "Prove and Conjecture!": Review of Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives. American Scientist, November-December 2000
• "Eureka!" The Sciences, November/December 2000
• "Bernoulli Was Ahead of Modern Epidemiology," Letter to the Editor, Nature, 30 November 2000
• "Analyze This: A Physicist on Applied Politics," New York Times, 21 November 2000
• "Particle Physics Braces for the Next Big Thing," New York Times, 21 November 2000
• "Crossing the Hopf Bifurcation in a Live Predator-Prey System," Gregor F. Fussman, et al, Science, 17 November 2000
• Reviews The Mystery of the Aleph, by Amir Aczel, New York Times, 15 November 2000, and The Sciences, November/December 2000
• "Calculating Swarms," Science News, 11 November 2000
• "Secrets will out": Review of Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II, Nature, 2 November 2000
• "May the Best Man Lose," Discover, November 2000

October 2000

• "Physics: the art of networking," Nature Science Update, 25 October 2000
• "Dealing With Biases And Discrete Choices," Charles Seife, Science, 20 October 2000
• "Systems biology's multiple maths," Nature, 19 October 2000
• "Playing for Keeps," Karl Sigmund, et al, Science, 13 October 2000
• "Growing a Book of Science," Science, 13 October 2000
• "Swedish Computer Team Crack 10 of the World's Toughest Codes," New York Times, 12 October 2000
• "Building Blocks of Movement," Nature, 12 October 2000
• "Global contest nets encryption standard," Science News, 7 October 2000
• "Fuzzy Math," Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 6 October 2000
• "Good-Bye Pythagoras?," Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 October 2000
• "The Logic of Human Learning, by Nick Chater. Nature, 5 October 2000
• "Uncertainty in climate change," Andrew J. Weaver, et al, Nature, 5 October 2000
• "Underhanded Achievement," Discover, October 2000

September 2000

• "Meet the Quant Jocks," New Scientist, 30 September 2000
• "Finding Your Inner Mathematician," Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 September 2000
• "Unlocking Puzzling Polygons," Science News, 23 September 2000
• "Imagine Chaos," Science, 22 September 2000
• "Money for Science Makes a Comeback," Boston Globe, 19 September 2000
• "Putting a Darwinian Spin on the Diesel Engine," New York Times, 19 September 2000
• "Picking up the Pieces: Science assembling a virtual look at life," Dallas Morning News, 11 September 2000
• "In Goedel and Cantor, Madness as Accessory to Genius," Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 September 2000
• "Time and Emotion": Review of the play God and Stephen Hawking. The London Times, 5 September 2000
• "How Not to Solve It": Review of The Random Walks of George Polya, and Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam. American Scientist, September-October 2000
• "The World in a Spin," American Scientist, September-October 2000
• "Power Tool," The Sciences, September/October 2000

August 2000

• "Mathematician on Ice," Science News, 12 August 2000
• "Prime conjecture verified to new heights," Science News, 12 August 2000
• "For Mathematicians, `a Once in a Century Thing'," Los Angeles Times, 10 August 2000
  "Math Convention Problems Just Keep On Multiplying," Los Angeles Times, 12 August 2000

July 2000

• "Randomness Everywhere," Nature, 22 July 1999
• "On the Teeth of Wheels," American Scientist, July/August 2000
• A review of The Advent of the Algorithm, by David Berlinski, American Scientist, July/August 2000
• "Mathematical Devices for Getting a Fair Share," American Scientist, July/August 2000
• "Lucky Numbers: Is It Wise to Bet on Mathematical Progress?" Lingua Franca, July/August 2000
• "Death of an Altruist," Lingua Franca, July/August 2000
• "Voices Carry: One More Paradigm Shift, and You'll be Able to Tell Your Computer Everything," Lingua Franca, July/August 2000

April 2000

• "Chaos in Space and Time," Nature, 13 April 2000
• Review of The Symbolic Universe: Geometry and Physics 1890-1930, Nature, 13 April 2000
• Review of Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture,Science, 7 April 2000
• "A Greene Universe," Scientific American, April 2000

March 2000

• "Foams and Honeycombs," American Scientist, March/April 2000
• "Graph Theory in Practice: Part II," American Scientist, March/April 2000
• "Million-Dollar Assault on Goldbach," Science, 31 March 2000
• "Bubble Trouble: It's taken 170 years, but now the problem is solved," New Scientist, 25 March 2000
• "Rounding Out Solutions to Three Conjectures," Science, 17 March 2000

February 2000

• "Math and Asociality," Science, 25 February 2000
• Review of A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip, Nature, 17 February 2000
• "Revealing Uncertainties in Computer Models," Science, 11 February 2000
• "Fermat's Last Theorem's First Cousin," Science, 4 February 2000

January 2000

• Review of The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots, by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao, Nature, 27 January 2000
• "Squares, Primes, and Proofs," Science News, 15 January 2000
• "Losing to Win," Science News, 15 January 2000
• Review of The Bride of Science, by Benjamin Woolley, New Scientist, 8 January 2000
• "The Computer Within," New Scientist, 8 January 2000
• "Schroedinger's Games," Scientific American, January 2000
• "The Nobel Prizes of 1999," Scientific American, January 2000
• "Graph Theory in Practice: Part I," American Scientist, January/February 2000

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