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2002 Articles

• Interview with Dr. Ingrid Daubechies, 2002, National Academies of Sciences web site

December 2002

• "Drama in Numbers," Science News, 21 & 28 December 2002
• "Go figure," New Scientist, 21/28 December 2002
• "Thou shalt knot": Review of Knots: Mathematics with a twist, by Alexei Sossinsky, New Scientist, 21/28 December 2002
• "Pi Record High,"Science, 20 December 2002
• "René Thom (1923-2002)", Nature, 19 December 2002
• "Erasing the divide that keeps many from grasping numbers," Boston Globe, 8 December 2002
• "What is the best way to lace your shoes?," Nature, 5 December 2002
• "Modelling a new angle on understanding cancer," correspondence in Nature, 5 December 2002
• "Bend and survive," Nature, 5 December 2002
• "Anfassen und begreifen (Touch and understand)," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 November 2002
  "It adds up to a novel way of looking at math," International Herald Tribune, 2 December 2002
• "Unsolved Math Mysteries," abcnews 'Who's Counting' monthly column, 1 December 2002
• "Kurt Gödel---Separating Truth from Proof in Mathematics," Science, 6 December 2002
• "Throwing Einstein for a Loop," Scientific American, December 2002
• "Order in Pollock's Chaos," Scientific American, December 2002

November 2002

• "The calculus of the dipstick?!" Car Talk, 30 November 2002
• "Maths adds up for Berlin centre," Nature, 28 November 2002
• "Congress backs historic expansion of NSF," Nature, 21 November 2002
• "Twins raise ruckus," New Scientist, 16 November 2002
  "The Emperor's New Science," Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 November 2002
• "Trying to figure it out": Review of The Millennium Problems: Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time, by Keith Devlin, Nature, 14 November 2002
• "Nature Insight: Computational Biology," a special section in Nature, 14 November 2002
• "The missing link," New Scientist, 9 November 2002
• "Calculus of the Battlefield," Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 November 2002
• "Proof, Amazement, and the Unexpected," Science, 1 November 2002
• "Money Wired," Popular Science, November 2002
• "50 Most Important Women in Science," Discover, November 2002
• "Mathematics in a Bottle: Turning geometry inside out," Discover, November 2002
• "PopSci's Brilliant 10," Popular Science, November 2002

October 2002

• Two reviews of Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures, by Marcia Ascher, October/November 2002
• "Maths proves Tetris is tough," Nature Science Update, 28 October 2002
• "Life's Complexity Pyramid," Science, 25 October 2002
• "The good, the bad and the lonely," Nature, 17 October 2002
• "Stone skimming formula adds new spin," New Scientist, 16 October 2002
• "The proof is out there": Review of four books, New Scientist, 12 October 2002
• "Bright Boy," Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 7 October 2002
• Press Coverage of the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, 3 October 2002
• "Brainiacs heat up screen at CineMath," San Francisco Chronicle, 2 October 2002
• "The Code Breaker---Heidi Lie Williams," Glamour, October 2002
• "Science on the Case," Popular Science, October 2002
• "Does Math Matter Anymore?", Discover, October 2002

September 2002

• "Digging Bit by Bit": Review of Principles of Data Mining by David Hand, Heikki Mannila and Padhraic Smyth, American Scientist, September-October 2002
• "Wolfram speaking here on claim to have discovered new kind of science," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 30 September 2002
• "Constant Companion," Science, 27 September 2002
• "Crucial Cipher Flawed, Cryptographers Claim," Science, 27 September 2002
• "The Short List: The Next Big Thing. The Cutting Edge in Geography, Math, Information Technologies, Criticism..." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 September 2002
• "Quantum Logic with Light, Glass, and Mirrors," Science, 13 September 2002
• "Universities urged to get with IT for biology," Nature, 12 September 2002
• "Early Einstein manuscript set to make a relative fortune," Nature, 12 September 2002
• "Enigma variations," New Scientist, 7 September 2002
• "How Islam Kickstarted Science," The Guardian, 5 September 2002
• "Number Crunching Cosmos," by Discover, September 2002
• "Tributes," Discover, September 2002
• "Beauty Secret: What separates homely from comely?," Discover, September 2002
• "Homeland Insecurity," The Atlantic Monthly Online, September 2002
• "Welcome to Yucca Mountain," Discover, September 2002

August 2002

• Worldwide press coverage of 2002 Fields Medals and Nevanlinna Prize
• "I know what you'll do next summer," New Scientist, 31 August 2002
• "Push me, pull me," New Scientist, 24 August 2002
• "A Fresh Take on Disorder, or Disorderly Science?", Science, 23 August 2002
• "Beautiful Mind, Formidable Intellect," Beijing Today, 23 August 2002
• "Professor hails mathematics winners," China Daily, 22 August 2002
• "Prime number puzzle solved at last," New Scientist, 11 August 2002
• "Edsger Dijkstra, 72, Physicist Who Shaped Computer Era, Dies," The New York Times, 10 August 2002
• "Science in culture: Algorithmic architecture," Nature, 8 August 2002
• "A Polymath in the 10th Century," Science, 2 August 2002
• "Why ET Hasn't Called," Scientific American, August 2002

July 2002

• Worldwide press coverage of the release of A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram
• "The Search for Rigor": Review of Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust, by Donald Mackenzie. American Scientist, July-August 2002
• "Retailers test paying by fingerprint," USA Today, 29 July 2002
• "A Stinging Forecast," Science News, 27 July 2002
• "The Geometry Center, 1991-1998. RIP," Science, 26 July 2002
• "Coming Up Trumps," New Scientist, 20 July 2002
• "Can you keep a secret?" Nature, 18 July 2002
• "NSF to Double Number of Math Institutes," Science, 12 July 2002
• Two reviews of Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-Laslo Barabasi and Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks by Mark Buchanan: Nature, 11 July 2002; Science, 16 August 2002
• "Hollywood Howlers" and "The Turing Files," Science, 5 July 2002
• "Graph Theory Uncovers the Roots of Perfection," Science, 5 July 2002
• "Natural style," Nature, 4 July 2002
• "Online protein project aids bioinformatics expansion," Nature, 4 July 2002
• "Uncovering Supersymmetry," Scientific American, July 2002

June 2002

• "Statistical Victory," Science, 28 June 2002
• "Silicon dreams in the biology lab," NatureJobs, 27 June 2002
• "Dangerous Wake," Science News, 22 June 2002
• "Software Glitch Threw Off Mortality Estimates," Science, 14 June 2002;
  "Statistical error leaves pollution data up in the air," Nature, 13 June 2002
• "Detectors licked by gummy fingers," Nature, 13 June 2002
• "Two Good Women, or Too Good to Be True?," Science, 7 June 2002
• "Fibonacci's flowers," Nature, 6 June 2002
• "Rare Throwback: Stephen Jay Gould" abcnews.com, 1 June 2002
• "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" New Scientist, 1 June 2002
• "Man of Two Cultures," Scientific American, June 2002
• "Silicon is Slow," Popular Science, June 2002
• "Six Degrees of Speculation," Scientific American, June 2002

May 2002

• Review of How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning, by Sherman Stein, American Scientist, May-June 2002
• Review of The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers, by Benjamin H. Yandell, American Scientist, May-June 2002
• "The Worm's Secret," Interface: a friendly science magazine, Spring/Summer 2002
• "When Markets Go Mad," Scientific American, May 2002
• "Prime Effort," Science News, 25 May 2002
• "A Fine Mess," New Scientist, 25 May 2002
• "Lie Detector": Review of Calculated Risks: how to know when number deceive you by Gerd Gigerenzer, New Scientist, 25 May 2002
• "NSF Moves With VIGRE to Force Changes in Academia," Science, 24 May 2002
• "Leaving Paisley Park": Review of Indra's Pearls by David Mumford, Caroline Series, and David Wright, New Scientist, 18 May 2002
• "Study: Anthrax Tainted Up to 5,000 Letters," Washington Post, 14 May 2002
• "Math Teachers Who Almost Took Math," The New York Times, 11 May 2002
• "Chaos Crib Sheet," Science, 10 May 2002
• "From Elton to Mathematics and Back Again," Science, 10 May 2002

April 2002

• Four articles on the recent attempted proof of the Poincaré Conjecture
• "The Mind Inside the Madness," The New York Times, 21 April, 2002
• "Eine Grosse Klein Bottle," Science, 19 April 2002
• "Successes and Challenges," Science, 19 April 2002
• "Amazing Algorithms," Nature, 18 April 2002
• "Lightning Forks Illuminated," Nature Science Update, 10 April 2002
• "Erdos's Hard-To-Win Prizes Still Draw Bounty Hunters," Science, 5 April 2002
• "The eyes have it," National Geographic, April 2002
• "Across America, Mastering Math," Smithsonian Magazine, April 2002
• "The World Is Broad and Wide": Review of The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Aboott, Scientific American, April 2002
• "Leaping the Abyss: Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe," reason, April 2002

March 2002

• "Darkness on Wednesday": Review of More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, New Scientist, 30 March 2002
• "Evolution of Suicidal Signals," Nature, 28 March 2002
• "Spinning eggs---a paradox resolved," Nature, 28 March 2002
• Review of It Must Be Beautiful, edited by Graham Farmelo, New Scientist, 23 March 2002
• "Beautiful Minds Minus Hollywood Glamour," Los Angeles Times, 23 March 2002
• "Statistical Analysis Provides Key Links in Milosevic Trial," Science, 22 March 2002
• "Greeks were slaves to the beat," Nature Science Update, 22 March 2002
• "In the eye of the beholder": Review of It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, Nature, 21 March 2002
• "Harvard's melting pot," Nature, 21 March 2002
• "A beautiful subject": Review of three books, New Scientist, 16 March 2002
• "Science Smarts," Science News, 16 March 2002
• "Double Dept.: A Beautiful Hand," The New Yorker, 11 March 2002
• "Maths picks moment for soccer super subs," New Scientist, 6 March 2002

February 2002

• "The Easiest Hard Problem," American Scientist, March-April 2002
• "Computers, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Mathematics," American Scientist, March-April 2002
• "Einstein and Gödel," Discover, March 2002
• "Decimal Decathlon," Science, 28 February 2002
• "Maths makes moves on cells," Nature Science Update, 19 February 2002
• "Origami solves road map riddle," Nature Science Update, 18 February 2002
• "Die Schönheit suchen, die Wahrheit finden," Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 10 February 2002
• "A Professor Bets on Jai Alai---With Computer Models," Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 February 2002
• "Metaphors-R-Us: A New Book Explains How Math is Rooted in Metaphors, not Divine Inspiration," ABCNEWS.com, 1 February 2002
• "Beautiful Mind's Math Guru Makes Truth = Beauty," Science, 1 February 2002
• "Census Case Tests Statistical Method," Science, 1 February 2002
• "The Science of Surprise," Discover Magazine, February 2002

January 2002

• "The Kolam Tradition," American Scientist, January-February 2002
• "Statistics of Deadly Quarrels," American Scientist, January-February 2002
• Reviews of four books, American Scientist, January-February 2002
• "The sum of the parts," Nature, 31 January 2002
• "The Investment Forecast," Nature, 31 January 2002
• "Inspired by immunity," Nature, 31 January 2002
• "Stress relief caused Giant's Causeway," Nature Science Update, 28 January 2002
• "Wealth spawns corruption," Nature Science Update, 28 January 2002
• "Sweet Nothings," New Scientist, 26 January 2002
• "Exploiting a Beautiful Mind," by Daniel Rockmore, Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 January 2002
• "The Physics of Society," Nature, 24 January 2002
• "A Better Web Through Higher Math," BusinessWeek online, 22 January 2002
• "Kreise, Kugeln, Zufälle: Überall spukt pi herum," ("Circles, balls, coincidences: pi is lurking everywhere"), Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 20 January 2002
• "Of Hexaflexagons, Superellipses and the Mad Romance of Numbers," The New York Times, 19 January 2002
• Review of Conversations with a Mathematician: Math, Art, Science, and the Limits of Reason,, by Gregory Chaitin, New Scientist, 12 January 2002
• "Life and Death, By the Numbers." NetWatch, Science, 11 January 2002
• "It all adds up at a conference," San Diego Union Tribune, 11 January 2002
• "Multiple Choice," New Scientist, 5 January 2002
• "Numbers with altitude": Review of Mathematical Mountaintops, by John Casti, New Scientist, 5 January 2002
• "You're Secret's Safe," New Scientist, 5 January 2002
• "The physics of the trading floor," Nature, 3 January 2002
• "Beautiful maths: Mathematicians dream of proving Riemann's Hypothesis," Prospect, January 2002
• "Tributes to the Talented", Discover, January 2002
• "Smart, Smarter, Smartest", Discover, January 2002

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