Math Digest

1996 Articles

December 1996

• "Prime Formula Weds Number Theory and Quantum Physics," Science, 20 December 1996
• "Mathematical Discoveries": Review of Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability, Science, 20 December 1996
• "With Major Math Proof, Brute Computers Show Flash of Reasoning Power," New York Times, 10 December 1996
• "Teen Math Whizzes Go Euclid One Better," Wall Street Journal, 9 December 1996
• "Topological Ideas and Fluid Mechanics," Physics Today, December 1996

November 1996

• Two reviews of Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem: Wall Street Journal, 25 November 1996; and New York Times, 16 December 1996
• "Rough Math: Focusing on Rogue Waves at Sea," Science News, 23 November 1996
• "Tying knots to tubular geometry, DNA loops," Science News, 16 November 1996
• "Where X = savings", Boston Globe, 15 November 1996
• "New Attacks Breach Computer Codes", Science, 1 November 1996
• "Math Against Tyranny", Discover, November 1996

October 1996

• "Confronting Science's Logical Limits," Scientific American, October 1996

September 1996

• "Meet an Inventor Who Makes Calculus Simple," Profile of Stephen Wolfram, Wall Street Journal, 25 September 1996
• Obituaries for Paul Erdos, September 24 and 27, 1996
• "Love of Numbers Leads to Chromosome 17," Profile of Eric Steven Lander, New York Times, 10 September 1996
• "Bubbles and Double Bubbles," The Scientist, September/October 1996

August 1996

• "Lattices May Put Security Codes on Firmer Footing," Science, 23 August 1996
• "Math Puzzlers Here for Prime Time," Seattle Times, 14 August 1996

July 1996

• "Butterflies on the Street, New York Times, 19 July 1996
• "Science Set Free From Truth," New York Times, 16 July 1996; "Don't Pull the String on String Theory," New York Times, 22 July 1996
• "A Productive Dead End, An Escape by Computer," A Review of After Thought," New York Times, 15 July 1996
• "The Frontier of Knowledge," Wall Street Journal, 12 July 1996
• "The Way the Ball Bounces," American Scientist, July-August 1996

June 1996

• "Number Crunch: A group of mathematicians is trying to cut the world's lengthiest theorem down to size," Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 June 1996

May 1996

• "A New Theory of Turbulence Causes a Stir Among Experts," Science, 17 May 1996; "The Wall Falls: A half-century-old equation for fluid dynamics is in doubt," Scientific American, August 1996
• "Digital Diffraction," American Scientist, May-June 1996
• "Animal Magnetism: Why, mathematically, birds of a feather flock together," The Sciences, May/June 1996

April 1996

• "In Modern Memorial, a Holocaust Victim's Thesis Goes on Internet," New York Times, 21 April 1996
• "Jugglers Now Juggle Numbers to Compute New Tricks for Ancient Art," New York Times, 16 April 1996
• "Error-Correcting Code Keeps Quantum Computers on Track," Science, 12 April 1996
• "Reflections on the Fate of Spacetime," Physics Today, April 1996
• "The Not So Enormous Theorem," Scientific American, April 1996

March 1996

• "Unconventional Mathematician is Making Brain Waves," New York Times, 31 March 1996
• "Fermat Prover Points to Next Challenges," Science, 22 March 1996
• "Streetcar Carries Evolution Modelers Around Roadblocks," Science, 8 March 1996
• "Beyond the Last Theorem," The Sciences, March/April 1996
• "Random Walks," American Scientist, March-April 1996
• "Speaking of Mathematics," American Scientist, March-April 1996
• "Bad Timing," Scientific American, March 1996

February 1996

• Two Reviews of A Tour of the Calculus, New York Times Book Review, 25 February 1996, and New York Times, 7 February 1996

January 1996

• "You Can't Hear the Shape of a Drum", American Scientist, January/February 1996

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