Math Digest

Summaries of Media Coverage of Math

Edited by Allyn Jackson, AMS
Contributors: Mike Breen (AMS), Claudia Clark (freelance science writer), Lisa DeKeukelaere (2004 AMS Media Fellow), Annette Emerson (AMS), Brie Finegold (University of California, Santa Barbara), Adriana Salerno (University of Texas, Austin)

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2008 Math Digest

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May 2008

• "Wagering with Zero," American Scientist, May/June 2008

April 2008

• "Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices," New York Times, 25 April 2008
• "Edward N. Lorenz, 90; scientist developed influential chaos theory," Los Angeles Times, 18 April 2008
  "Eye for Detail." Newsmakers, Science, 25 April 2008
• "Awards," Science, 18 April 2008
• "The Quirky Math of Voting: Oddities and Anomolies are always possible," Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 April 2008
• "Random Stock Market Quite Ordered," Daily News and Analysis, 12 April 2008
• "Creeping Up on Riemann," Science News Online, 5 April 2008
• "Doing the iPod Shuffle," NPR Weekend Edition, 5 April 2008
• "Creating Musical Variation," Science, 4 April 2008
• "Building a mechanical calculator from 19th century plans," Computer World Australia, 4 April 2008
  "Difference Engine No. 2--No. 2," Scientific American, July 2008
• Articles on Aztec math, April 2008
• "At the Edge of Life's Code," Scientific American, April 2008

March 2008

• "In höhere Dimensionen (In higher dimensions)," Die Zeit, 28 March 2008;
  "Verschollenes Genie (Missing Genius)," Neues Zürcher Zeitung, 27 April 2008
  "Sensitivity to the Harmony of Things," Science News, 9 May 2008
• Articles about the 2008 Abel Prize, March 2008
• Articles on report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, March 2008
• "Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot": A conversation, Seed Magazine, 24 March 2008
• "Women in Math? City Tech Profs Say We Need More," Brooklyn Eagle, 21 March 2008
• "Math Major Explains Method to March Madness", National Public Radio, 20 March 2008;
  "CofC Students Predict 'Final Four' Using Math Calculations," WCSC-TV, 22 March 2008
• "Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies," New York Times, 19 March 2008
• "Let's talk about figures," The Economist, 19 March 2008
• "His puzzling avocation is no trivial pursuit," Boston Globe, 17 March 2008
• "Cryptologists Cook Up Some Hash for New 'Bake-Off'," Science, 14 March 2008
• "In U.S. Politics, Party Rule Flips Like Clockwork," Discovery Channel News, 13 March 2008
• "All eyes on the Amazon": Interview with Carlos Nobre, Nature, 13 March 2008
• "Africa Steps Up Efforts to Train Top Scientists," Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 March 2008
• "Want to Save a Coral Reef? Bring Along Your Crochet Needles," New York Times, 4 March 2008
• "Are Our Brains Wired for Math?", New Yorker, 3 March 2008
• "A Mathematical Tragedy: Sophie Germain had a bold program to prove Fermat's Last Theorem," Science News Online, Week of 1 March 2008;
  "NMSU professor unearths manuscripts of first female mathematics researcher," Las Cruces Sun-News, 24 March 2008
• "The Unknown Einstein", special issue of Discover, March 2008

February 2008

• "Strict Ordering Slashes Tarmac Time," Nature, 28 February 2008
• "Teaching a computer to appreciate art," msnbc.com, 25 February 2008
• "Casino Security: Counting a legend," Las Vegas Review-Journal, 25 February 2008
• "An Attack on Fermat," Science News Online, Week of 23 February 2008
• "Maths in action": Review of How Round is Your Circle?, by John Bryant and Chris Sangwin, New Scientist, 23 February 2008
• "Looking behind the numbers": Interview with John Ioannidis, New Scientist, 16 February 2008
• Articles about sessions at the 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Science, 15 February 2008
• "Baseball's Devil May Not Be in the Details," New York Times, 10 February 2008
• "Russian immigrant solves math puzzle," The Jerusalem Post, 8 February 2008;
  "Israeli immigrant solves 38-year-old math problem," Israel 21C, 18 February 2008
• "How Much is a Trillion?" Science Friday, National Public Radio, 8 February 2008
• "A Human Rights Statistician Finds Truth in the Numbers," Christian Science Monitor, 7 February 2008;
  "The Forensic Humanitarian," New York Times Magazine, 17 February 2008
• "On the Job: Math mavens seek solutions", Poughkeepsie Journal, 5 February 2008
• "Microsoft Adds Research Lab in East as Others Cut Back," New York Times, 4 February 2008
• "No god required": Review of Irreligion, by John Allen Paulos, New Scientist, 2 February 2008
• "In the Movies," Science, 1 February 2008
• "When Math Warps Elections," Newsweek, 4 February 2008

January 2008

• "Math + Religion = Trouble", Toronto Star, 26 January 2008
• "Benjamin Franklin Plays Sudoku," Science News Online, 26 January 2008
• "Berkeley math institute celebrates 25 years," San Francisco Chronicle, 25 January 2008
• "Math is a ball!", ABC6 TV Action News, 25 January 2008
• "Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus", New Scientist, 23 January 2008;
  "Wann es sich lohnt, auf das Tram zu warten (When it pays to wait for the bus)", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 February 2008
• "Celia Hoyles: the magic of numbers", The Guardian (UK), 22 January 2008
• "The maths behind group showers," Nature News, 18 January 2008
• "Alan Alda tackles 'MATH'---and science---in conversation," San Francisco Chronicle, 17 January 2008;
  "Popular science in a cafe scene," Contra Costa Times, 22 January 2008
• "If You Don't Know Your Math, You'll End Up Taking a Bath," Wall Street Journal, 16 January 2008
• "A Mathematical Gem," Science, 18 January 2008;
  "Diamond's chiral chemical cousin," spectroscopyNOW.com, 15 January 2008;
  "Perfect as a Diamond", Research Highlights, Nature Materials volume 7, number 2, 2008.
• "Nerds, geeks, superstars," Sydney Morning Herald, 13 January 2008
• "Small Infinity, Big Infinity," Science News Online, 12 January 2008
• "Mathematician Proposes Another Way of Divvying Up the US House," Nature News, 8 January 2008
• "Zahlen und Formeln sind die heimlichen Herrscher des 21. Jahrhunderts (Numbers and formulas are the secret rulers of the 21st century)", Welt am Sonntag, 6 January 2008
• "Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market," Nature, 3 January 2008
• Math in "The Year in Science 2007," Discover, January 2008
• "Why do strings of holiday lights end up in giant knots?", Popular Science, January 2008
• "Formula For Disaster," WIRED, January 2008

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