Math Digest

1997 Articles

December 1997

• "The Subjective Underbelly of Hardheaded Math," New York Times, 20 December 1997

November 1997

• Seven articles on the Beal Conjecture and the $50,000 Prize for its Solution
• Review of Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh, New York Times Book Review, 30 November 1997
• "Quantum Honeybees," Discover, November 1997
• "Fermat's Last Stand," Scientific American, November 1997
• "Square Knots," American Scientist, November-December 1997
• "The Truth about Counting," The Sciences, November-December 1997

October 1997

• "The Shaping of Oboe Reeds: Maybe it is Rocket Science," New York Times, 31 October 1997
• "Figuring it All Out, 350 Years Later: Review of `The Proof'," New York Times, 27 October 1997
• "Fractions to Make an Egyptian Scribe Blanch," Science, 10 October 1997
• "Unjamming Traffic With Computers," Scientific American, October 1997

September 1997

• "Mastering the Nonlinear Brain," Science, 19 September 1997
• "Inverse Boundary-Value Problems," American Scientist, September-October 1997
• Review of "Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems," American Scientist, September-October 1997
• Review of "Strength in Numbers: Discovering the Joy and Power of Mathematics in Everyday Life," American Scientist, September-October 1997

August 1997

• "An enormous chunk of pi," Science News, 9 August 1997
• "Lava lamp randomness," Science News, 9 August 1997
• "Beats and Bytes," Science, 8 August 1997
• "'Soft' Mathematics Can Help Us Understand the Human Mind," The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 8, 1997

July 1997

• "Hiding in lattices: An improved mathematical strategy for encrypting data," Science News, 5 July 1997
• "Ground Zero: A Review of The Pleasures of Counting, by T. W. Koerner," The Sciences, July/August 1997
• "Review of Why Flip A Coin?" The Sciences, July/August 1997

June 1997

• "Strings Unknot Problems in Particle Theory, Black Holes," Science, 27 June 1997
• "Divide and Conquer for Quantum Computers," Science News, 14 June 1997
• "Medical Mismatch: When hospitals act like men," Scientific American, June 1997

May 1997

• "Flaw Found in Quantum Code," Science, 16 May 1997; "Quantum Cheating," Science News, 14 June 1997
• "Researchers on Complexity Ponder What It's All About," New York Times, 6 May 1997
• "Tying Physical Theory into Stable Knots," Science News, 3 May 1997
• "Chaos Keeps Data Under Wraps," Science, 2 May 1997
• "A: One, From Romania. Q: How Many Women Have Won the Ultimate Math Contest?," New York Times, 1 May 1997
• "Duality, Spacetime, and Quantum Mechanics," Physics Today, May 1997
• "What is Random?," American Scientist, May/June 1997
• "Through the Looking Glass," The Sciences, May/June 1997
• "Qubit by Qubit: Building better quantum computer," The Sciences, May/June 1997

April 1997

• "New Test Sizes Up Randomness," Science, 25 April 1997; "Assessing Irrational Irregularity," Science News, 31 May 1997
• "Fractal Geometry Gets the Measure of of Life's Scales," Science, 4 April 1997
• "The Science of Murphy's Law," Scientific American, April 1997

March 1997

• "Chaos in Hollywood: Can science explain why a movie is a hit or a flop?," The New Yorker, 31 March 1997
• "Taking `Hard' Problems to the Limit," Science, 14 March 1997
• "Computers and Proof: Applying automated reasoning to prove mathematical theorems," Science News, 22 March 1997
• "Fractal Past, Fractal Future," Science News, 1 March 1997
• "Juggling Act: A Profile of Ronald L. Graham," Scientific American, March 1997
• "Can't Get No Satisfaction," American Scientist, March/April 1997
• "Coffee Mates: An artist and a mathematician share a `readymade' brew," The Sciences, March/April 1997

February 1997

• "How to Play Platonic Billiards," Science, 21 February 1997
• "In Mao's China, Politically Correct Math," Science, 28 February 1997
• "Smart Neurons Offer Neuroscience a Math Lesson," Science, 14 February 1997
• "A Decade of Teaching `Reform Calculus' Has Been a Disaster, Critics Charge," Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 February 1997
• "The Challenge of Large Numbers," Scientific American, February 1997

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