Math Digest

1998 Articles

December 1998

• "Hilbert's Hotel," New Scientist, 19/26 December 1998 - 2 January 1999

November 1998

• "Pulling Power", New Scientist, 28 November 1998
• "From Solitaire, a Clue to the World of Prime Numbers," Science, 27 November 1998
• "From tilings to coverings," Nature, 5 November 1998; "New Data Help Explain Crystals That Defy Nature," New York Times, 24 November 1998
• "Identity Crisis", American Scientist, November-December 1998
• "Monstrous Moonshine is True: Profile of Richard Borcherds," Scientific American, November 1998

October 1998

• "Stability is woven by complex webs", Nature, 22 October 1998
• "Andre Weil (1906-98): One of the century's most influential pure mathematicians,"Nature 1998
• "Don't get mad, get even," New Scientist, 3 October 1998
• "Gas on the Brain", New Scientist, 3 October 1998
• "Monge's Maths, Hummel's Highlights", Nature, 15 October 1998

September 1998

• "Magic squares cornered," Nature, 17 September 1998
• "Orbits of all sorts," Nature, 3 September 1998.
• "The New New Math," New York Review of Books, 24 September 1998
• "Fractals Reemerge in the New Math of the Internet," Science, 25 September 1998
• "Nonlinear Modes of Vibration," Nature, 10 September 1998
• A review of Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers, by Jan Gullberg, Scientific American, September 1998

August 1998

• "Zugbruecke ausser Betrieb: Die Mathematik im Jenseits der Kultur---Eine Aussenansicht" ("Drawbridge Out of Order: Mathematics Outside of Culture---An Outsider's View")
• "Rules of Engagement," New Scientist, 29 August 1998
• "Computing with DNA," Scientific American, August 1998
• "A Quarter Century of Recreational Mathematics," Scientific American, August 1998
• "Nobelpreis fuer Quatsch," Der Spiegel, 24 August 1998
• Reviews of biographies of Paul Erdos, New Scientist, 1 August 1998; and New York Times Book Review, 27 September 1998

July 1998

• "Good Vibrations," American Scientist, July-August 1998
• "The First Digit Phenomenon," American Scientist, July-August 1998

June 1998

• "The Big Match," Nature, 4 June 1998
• "Quantum Computing with Molecules", Scientific American, June 1998

May 1998

• "A Universal Symbol," New Scientist, 23 May 1998
• "A Calculus of Risk", Scientific American, May 1998
• "Japanese Temple Geometry", Scientific American, May 1998

April 1998

• "Drinking by Numbers," New Scientist, 11 April 1998.
• "Zero, Zilch and Zip," New Scientist, 25 April 1998.
• "Mathematics and Tensegrity," American Scientist, March-April 1998
• "How to melt if you must," Nature, 16 April 1998
• "A Mystery, Unraveled Twice," New York Times, 14 April 1998
• Review of the movie Pi, New York Times, 3 April 1998

March 1998

• Two reviews of The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene
• "With Abstruse Mathematics as a Tool, 2 Brothers Tackle Real-World Problems," Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 March 1998

February 1998

• "Mathematicians describe tendril perversion," Science News, 28 February 1998
• "Using Math to Preserve the Environment," Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 February 1998
• "Useful Invention or Absolute Truth: What is Math?", New York Times, 10 February 1998
• "Circles in the Sky: Detecting the shape of the universe," Science News, 21 February 1998
• "Proving a Link Between Logic and Origami," Science, 6 February 1998
• "The Theory Formerly Known as Strings," Scientific American, February 1998

January 1998

• Review of The Universe and the Teacup by K.C. Cole, Boston Globe, 25 January 1998
• "Math or Mat," Science, 23 January 1998
• "Sieving Prime Numbers from Thin Ore," Science, 2 January 1998
• "Nobel Prize in Economics: Wall Street Rocket Science in a Pocket Calculator," Scientific American, January 1998
• "Transcendental Moment: Computers savor a sliver of pi," The Sciences, January/February 1998
• "Solving Polynomials with Computers," American Scientist, January-February 1998

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