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Math in the Media 2000

December 2000

• That was the election that was.
• Fermat's Last Tango
• Recognition for Mathematics
• The butterfly effect?
• Math history on the web
• 31 Prime, 35 Past Prime?
• Art and Mathematics 2000

November 2000

• The tiniest dodecahedron
• Strange attractors onstage
• Incompressible is incomprehensible
• A new Federal encryption algorithm
• The geometry of a fender-bender

October 2000

• Online Math Quiz October 17
• Computation with 2-dimensional DNA
• More math into biology!
• Math genes?
• Slime-mould topology
• Retinal Calculus

September 2000

• Updating Ramanujan
• Making RNA think
• 5 + 2 = yellow
• Contentious disciples
• A Figure-8 knot ina protein
• Math in Los Angeles

July/August 2000

• Roach Applied Math
• Pinning down the Butterfly
• The Joy of Sharing

June 2000

• Math on Broadway
• Honeybee Calculus and Analytic Geometry
• Euler's Spinning Penny

May 2000

• $1,000,000 revisited
• Heinous math?
• The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem
• Flexible Math Meets Parental Rebellion

April 2000

• Double Bubbles
• More Monkey Math
• Squeeze in a few more?
• How to win $1,000,000\ - the hard way

March 2000

• Pebbles to Microchips
• Beyond Quadratic Reciprocity
• Theory of Liquid Spikes

February 2000

• Math Snow SculptureWins Prize at Breckenridge
• Bubbles can sink in stout
• More on Parrando's Paradox
• ``DNA Computer''
• More Chimp Math?
• The Curl of Agnesi

January 2000

• Microscopic predators and prey
• Heads you lose, tails you lose, but you win in the end
• Math + Art = Dada?
• Bees know best