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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."

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Chaos Ball Raises Money for MoMath

A fundraiser for the National Museum of Mathematics garnered $830,000 and coverage in the Wall Street Journal.

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PhotoMath 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.

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Math'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.

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Symposium 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.

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It's All about Phase Transition

As Natalie Wolchover explains in Quanta Magazine, an explanation for the ubiquitous Tracy-Widom distribution is beginning to emerge.

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Why 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.

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Stereographic 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.

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Randomness Is Human?

Writing for Nautilus, David Auerbach explores the role of randomness in human and computer creativity.

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Symbols Affect Thought

Wired blogger Samuel Arbesman reminds readers that how we represent mathematical ideas affects how we think about them.

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Math Circles Serve Up Mathematical Entrées

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the inaugural meeting of the Santa Cruz Math Circle.

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Retraining the Parents

As the Common Core reshapes how mathematics is taught, reports the Washington Post, educators find themselves teaching parents as well as students.

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Like [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.

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The 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...

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The Woman Who Cracked Enigma

As the BBC reports, the new film The Imitation Game gives a little-known female cryptanalyst recognition long overdue.

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Spliddit Provides Provably Fair Solutions

As reported in The Aperiodical, a new website called Spliddit makes fair division problems easier to solve.

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Acing 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.

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Business Card Math

Writing for the Huffington Post, Tim Chartier describes how the Mega Menger project constructed what may be the largest fractal ever built.

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"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.

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Top 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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