Listen to Lockhart
Writing for Business Insider, Andy Kiersz recommends that "anyone who has any interest in math and math education" read Paul Lockhart's "A Mathematician's Lament."
View ArticleChaos Ball Raises Money for MoMath
A fundraiser for the National Museum of Mathematics garnered $830,000 and coverage in the Wall Street Journal.
View ArticlePhotoMath App Solves Math Problems
PhotoMath, Microblink's smart camera calculator app, uses your mobile device's camera to read and solve simple linear equations and other math problems in real time.
View ArticleMath's Role in the Ebola Fight
Mathematical biologist Ben Adams (University of Bath) explains how mathematicians contribute to the fight against the likes of Ebola.
View ArticleSymposium on Math in Latin America
An October symposium at Columbia University's Teachers College explored the growing role of Latin America on the mathematical world stage.
View ArticleIt's All about Phase Transition
As Natalie Wolchover explains in Quanta Magazine, an explanation for the ubiquitous Tracy-Widom distribution is beginning to emerge.
View ArticleWhy Don't More Black Men Get STEM Ph.D.s?
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a suite of articles in October exploring the dearth of black men in STEM fields.
View ArticleStereographic Projection Produces Stunning Shadows
Mathematicians Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University) and Saul Schleimer (University of Warwick) have created stunning shadow sculptures using stereographic projection in reverse.
View ArticleRandomness Is Human?
Writing for Nautilus, David Auerbach explores the role of randomness in human and computer creativity.
View ArticleSymbols Affect Thought
Wired blogger Samuel Arbesman reminds readers that how we represent mathematical ideas affects how we think about them.
View ArticleMath Circles Serve Up Mathematical Entrées
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the inaugural meeting of the Santa Cruz Math Circle.
View ArticleRetraining the Parents
As the Common Core reshapes how mathematics is taught, reports the Washington Post, educators find themselves teaching parents as well as students.
View ArticleLike [i]World of Warcraft[/i], But with a Pencil
New Scientist reviews Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, by Stand-Up Mathematician Matt Parker.
View ArticleThe Mathematics of Hipsters
In “The Hipster Effect: When Anticonformists All Look the Same,” Jonathan Touboul (Collège de France) uses mathematics to explain why hipsters, for all their attempts at nonconformity, all end up in the...
View ArticleThe Woman Who Cracked Enigma
As the BBC reports, the new film The Imitation Game gives a little-known female cryptanalyst recognition long overdue.
View ArticleSpliddit Provides Provably Fair Solutions
As reported in The Aperiodical, a new website called Spliddit makes fair division problems easier to solve.
View ArticleAcing the AIME without Scratch Work
Eleven-year-old Ben Lou scored in the top one percent on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination—and he did most of the math in his head.
View ArticleBusiness Card Math
Writing for the Huffington Post, Tim Chartier describes how the Mega Menger project constructed what may be the largest fractal ever built.
View Article"Wow, That’s How a Math Person Thinks"
In his first ever show, math Ph.D.-turned-hedge funder-turned artist Nelson Saiers displays work informed by mathematics.
View ArticleTop Mathematics Writers Awarded Prizes at MAA MathFest
WASHINGTON, DC -- Awards for the year’s best mathematics writing were given on July 27 in Chicago by the Mathematical Association of America at MAA MathFest, one of the largest gathering of...
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