Math Digest

2004 Math Digest

December 2004

• "Snowflakes made easy," news@nature.com, 31 December 2004
• "How math enriches our lives," The Providence Journal, 30 December 2004
• "Taming the Hyperbolic Jungle by Pruning Its Unruly Edges," Science, 24 December 2004
• "The Return of a Beautiful Mind": Interview with John Nash,New Scientist, 18 December 2004
• "Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 December 2004
• "The Mathematician's Literary Companion," Science, 17 December 2004
• "The Designated Hitter as Moral Hazard," and "Sabermetrics for Football," New York Times Magazine, 12 December 2004
• "Teen wins $54,000 by doing the math," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 December 2004
• "Poppy Seed Bagel Math." Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, 11 December 2004.
• "Parallel Worlds": Review of János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space by Jeremy J. Gray, Science, 10 December 2004
• "Circumferential Curiosities": Review of π: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number by Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann, Science, 10 December 2004
• "Misleading Numbers in the News: A Look at Numbers behind Social Security, Illegal Immigrants and Iraqi Civilians Killed," ABCNEWS.com, 5 December 2004
• "Take a Chance," Science News, 4 December 2004
• Obituaries for Shiing-Shen Chern, December 2004
• Articles about TIMSS, an international study of math and science achievement, December 2004
• "What Makes Beautiful Minds," FastCompany, December 2004
• "The Case of the Pilfered Planet: Did the British Steal Neptune?" Scientific American, December 2004
• "Optics and Realism in Renaissance Art," Scientific American, December 2004
• "Best of what's new," Popular Science, December 2004
• "The Cerebral Jongleur," Discover, December 2004

November 2004

• "Getting the Message Across": Review of Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David J.C. MacKay, American Scientist, November-December 2004
• "Amateur puts maths riddle to its stiffest test," New Scientist, 27 November 2004
• "Math prizes," Science, 26 November 2004
• "Warum die Frauen nicht davonsprinten," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 21 November 2004
• "Father of Fractals," Nature, 18 November 2004
• "Grape ripening as a past climate indicator," Nature, 18 November 2004;
• "Medieval harvests reveal climate change," The Globe and Mail, 18 November 2004
• "A Watchdog Follows the Money in Iraq," New York Times, 15 November 2004
• "Quantum decoys create uncrackable code," New Scientist, 13 November 2004
• "A fractal life": Interview with Benoit Mandelbrot, New Scientist, 13 November 2004
• "Group Celebrates Giving Girls Equation for Success," Oakland Tribune, 8 November 2004
• Articles about using science and mathematics to detect art forgeries, November 2004
• Articles on Fibonocci numbers and markets, November 2004

October 2004

• "Die Qual der Wahl mit dem Wahlcomputer," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 31 October 2004
• "Vodka + Movies = Pseudoscience," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 October 2004
• "How Strategists Design the Perfect Candidate," Science, 29 October 2004
• "What Makes an Equation Beautiful," New York Times, 24 October 2004
• "Murphy at the Bat," The New Yorker, 20 October 2004
• "What do mathematicians do?," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 October 2004
• "Mad Math: Bending Time with Primer Director," New York Times, 19 October 2004
• "Manjul Bhargava: An Artist of Music and Math," NPR's Morning Edition, 18 October 2004
• "Science in the Fast Lane," Nature, 14 October 2004
• "Scientists win grant to study vibration," Mercury News, 11 October 2004
• "What is the Riemann Hypothesis and Why Should I Care?" IT Director, 6 October 2004
• "Rebuilding Rome," New Scientist, 2 October 2004
• "Oddballs: It's easier to pack spheres in some dimensions than in others," Science News, 2 October 2004
• "PopSci's Third Annual Brilliant 10," Popular Science, October 2004
• "Beautiful Minds, Beautiful Music," Discover, October 2004

September 2004

• "Circles of friends: What maths tells us about us", The Economist, 30 September 2004
  "Doing a number on terrorism: A conference at Rutgers focused on how math could be applied to the fight against terrorists," Philadelphia Inquirer, 10 October 2004
• "Play it again, John": Review of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior: Sixtieth-Anniversary Edition, by John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern, Nature, 30 September 2004
• "Pedigrees for all humanity," Nature, 30 September 2004
• Special issue on randomness, New Scientist, 25 September 2004
• "New Light on Newton," Science, 24 September 2004
• "For Fry's, It's a Prime Time to Support Higher Math," The Los Angeles Times, 20 September 2004
• "Naturally patterned": Review of The Colours of Infinity, by Ian Stewart, Benoit Mandelbrot, et al, New Scientist, 18 September 2004
• "Dali's immortality of the soul," Nature, 16 September 2004
• "Google Entices Job-Searchers with Math Puzzle," NPR Morning Edition, 14 September 2004
• Articles on biometrics: "How to Stop Identity Theft," Discover, October 2004, and "Iris ID," ABC News.com, 13 September 2004
• "Browns Town 1964: Frank Ryan," Cleveland Browns web site, 6 September 2004
• "Solving a Knotty Problem," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 September 2004

August 2004

• "Election Prediction," ABC News.com, 29 August 2004
• "A Better Distorted View," Science News Online, 28 August 2004
• "You Can Get There From Here," Science, 27 August 2004
• "The First Eureka Moment," Science, 27 August 2004
• "Mathematics: Building a gold medal team," San Diego Tribune, 27 August 2004
• Articles on floating paraboloids: "Floating Bodies," Science News, 21 August 2004;
  and "Whatever Floats Your Paraboloid," Science, "Random Samples" column, 20 August 2004
• "Life Without Numbers in the Amazon," Science, 20 August 2004
• "Fonda, Garbo, Headline Stamps," CBSNEWS.com, 14 August 2004
• "Tribeca Calls for Tech Scripts," Backstage, 13 August 2004
• "Expectations are rising: Algebra's for everyone now," USA Today, 12 August 2004
• "Playing dirty": Review of the play Calculus by Carl Djerassi, Nature, 12 August 2004
• "Quantizing the classical cat," Nature, 12 August 2004
• "Japanese deploy solar sails," news@nature.com, 10 August 2004
• "Your Last, Best Chance to Improve Your Erdos Number," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 August 2004
• "Shaping up at Olympia," Nature, 5 August 2004

July 2004

• "Strings with a twist," New Scientist, 31 July 2004
• "2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 23: What comes next?" International Herald Tribune, 30 July 2004
• "Multicultural Math." NetWatch, Science, 30 July 2004
• "Generous players," Science News, 24 July 2004
• "Diagrams you can count on": Review of Cogwheels of the Mind: the Story of Venn Diagrams by A.W.F. Edwards, Nature, 22 July 2004
• "Waring Experiments," Science News Online, 17 July 2004
• "A three-player solution," Nature, 15 July 2004
• "The EU constitution is 'unfair', according to game theorists," The Telegraph, 14 July 2004
• "Building Biostatistics," Nature, 8 July 2004
• "Is Team Really as Good as Record? Do the Math," The New York Times, 4 July 2004
• "Infinite Beauty: Fractals and Chaos: The Mandelbrot Set and Beyond," Nature, 1 July 2004

• June 2004

• "Herman Goldstine Dies at 90; Helped Build First Computers," New York Times, 26 June 2004
• "Best Musical Score (By a Laptop)," New York Times, 26 June 2004
• "Vital Statistics," New Scientist, 26 June 2004
• "Now prove it," New Scientist, 19 June 2004
• "Groups, Graphs, and Erdös Numbers," Science News Online, June 12, 2004
• "Awards" (to S. S. Chern and Mikhael Gromov), Science, 11 June 2004
• "Mighty prime," New Scientist, 5 June 2004;
• "Another Mersenne," Science, 11 June 2004
• "Asimov's 'Foundation' theories on society move from fiction to academia," Kansas City Star, 1 June 2004
• "Cracking the DaVinci Code," Discover, June 2004
• "A Confederacy of Smarts," Scientific American, June 2004
• "Thumbing His Nose at Academe, a Scholar Tries to Auction His Services," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 May 2004;
  "Theorems for Sale," Science News, 12 June 2004

May 2004

• "Leaves, Flowers and Garbage Bags: Making Waves," American Scientist, May-June 2004
• Articles on mathematics and cicada behavior, May and June 2004
• "Math Equation Predicts Musical Reactions," Discovery News, 25 May 2004
• "Von der Ungleichheit der Knoten im Netzwerk," Neue Zuercher Zeitung, 16 May 2004
• "Glimpses of Genius," Science News, 15 May 2004
• "WWII code-breakers aim to crack inscription," The Providence Journal, 13 May 2004
• "The Tug of the Newfangled Slot Machines," The New York Times Magazine, 9 May 2004
• "Spiral pattern helps cacti deal with stress," New Scientist, 8 May 2004
• "Calculating Doom," ABCnews.com, 5 May 2004
• "A Numbers Game," Jerusalem Report, 3 May 2004
• "$1.5 million buys book that put world in its place," The Kansas City Star, 1 May 2004
• "The Cryptography of ... Voting Machines," Discover, May 2004
• "Gizmos: Enigma-E Electronic Enigma Machine," Discover, May 2004

April 2004

• New result on arithmetic progressions of prime numbers, April and May 2004
• "Computer Experiments Are Transforming Mathematics," Science News, 24 April 2004
• "Mathematics With a Moral," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 April 2004
• "Is space rolled up like a funnel?", New Scientist, 17 April 2004
• "Sixteen steps to Isaac": Review of From Newton to Hawking, edited by Kevin Knox and Richard Noakes, New Scientist, 17 April 2004
• "No Half Wits," ABCNEWS.com, 12 April 2004
• "Strung out across the universe": Review of The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene, New Scientist, 10 April 2004
• "In Math, Computers Don't Lie. Or Do They?", The New York Times, 6 April 2004;
  "Pyramids and Oranges," Weekend Edition, 10 April 2004
• "The Height of Vanity," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 April 2004
• "Drawing to a Close," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 April 2004
• "Dashing a dream," Dallas Morning News, 5 April 2004
• "Autistic Genius?": Review of two books on autism, Nature, 1 April 2004
• Articles on 2004 Abel Prize Awarded to Michael Atiyah and I. M. Singer, April 2004
• "A Regal Bearing," Scientific American, April 2004
• Reviews of Count Down: Six Kids vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition, March and April 2004

March 2004

• "Honesty in Inference": Review of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes, American Scientist, March-April 2004
• "Safely Rooted on Earth, Scientists Solve an Icy Martian Puzzle," New York Times 30 March 2004
• "Mathematicians Caught on Film," Science, 26 March 2004
• "Divine proportion and the Holy Grail," Nature, 25 March 2004
• "We've Got Algorithm, but How About Soul?" New York Times, 21 March 2004
• "Top of the Top 40," Science News, 20 March 2004
• "Quantum Channel Capacities," Science, 19 March 2004
• "Sir John A. Pople, 78, Who Won Nobel Chemistry Prize, Dies" The New York Times, 17 March 2004
• "Stretchy strings make `fuzzy' black hole give up its secrets," New Scientist, 13 March 2004
• "Lady of longitude," New Scientist, 13 March 2004
• "Hurricanes and butterflies," Nature, 11 March 2004
• "Forever and Ever," abcnews.com, 7 March 2004
• "Criminals follow laws of statistics," Nature Science Update, 3 March 2004
• "Journey to the 10th Dimension," Popular Science, March 2004
• "The Fairest Vote of All," Scientific American, March 2004

February 2004

• "Is Complexity Simple?" NetWatch, Science, 27 February 2004
• "Virtual plagues get real," Nature, 26 February 2004
• "Prime Time Entertainment," The Guardian, 25 February 2004
• "The Not So Random Coin Toss," All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 24 February 2004
• "Computation's New Leaf," Science News, 21 February 2004
• "How many M&M's are in this jar? Hint: It's all in the packing," The Baltimore Sun, 16 February 2004
• "Networking Opportunity," Nature, 12 February 2004
• "Prisoners of the Dilemma," Nature, 5 February 2004
• "Incremental Analysis, With Two Yards to Go," The New York Times, 1 February 2004
• "Pigskin Pythagoras," The Boston Globe, 1 February 2004
• "Mental Muscles of Steel," Popular Science, February 2004

January 2004

• "Proof Reading": Review of The Changing Shape of Geometry: Celebrating a Century of Geometry and Geometry Teaching edited by Chris Pritchard, American Scientist, January-February, 2004
• Review of Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations, by Keith Ball, New Scientist, 31 January 2004
• "Dead Right": Review of Alan Turing, edited by Christof Teuscher, New Scientist, 24 January 2004
• "Number of the beasts," New Scientist, 24 January 2004
• "Dancing the quantum dream," New Scientist, 24 January 2004
• "Formula and Function," Science, 23 January 2004
• "A Different String," Science, 23 January 2004
• "Gardening by numbers," Nature, 22 January 2004
• "Pennies Falling from Heaven: Getting Inspiration---and Fun---With a Spin From a Master," LocalTechWire.com, 20 January 2004
• "Know thy neighbor," New Scientist, 17 January 2004
• "Maths muddle," New Scientist, 17 January 2004
• "Infinite Confusion": Review of Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace, Science, 16 January 2004
• "Splitting Terrorist Cells," Science News, 10 January 2004
• "Destined for destruction," New Scientist, 10 January 2004
• "Ocean devotion," The Age, 9 January 2004
• "Cake-cutting perfected," Nature Science Update, 7 January 2004
• "Former IU and Olympic swim coach dies at 83," The New York Times, 5 January 2004
• "Arithmetic and the Candidates," abcnews.com, 4 January 2004
• "The Curious History of the First Pocket Calculator," Scientific American, January 2004
• "Funny Songs About Math and Furniture," Popular Science, January 2004
• "2003: Mathematicians Face Uncertainty," Discover, January 2004

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