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 Arizona), Baldur Hedinsson (2009 AMS Media Fellow), and Ben Polletta (Harvard Medical School)

2013 Math Digest

May

• "Crinkly Curves," American Scientist, May-June 2013

April

• Blog on mathematical sculptures and announcing a new AMS blog
• "Kenneth I. Appel, Mathematician Who Harnessed Computer Power, Dies at 80," The New York Times, 29 April 2013
  "Kenneth Appel, mathematician who solved four-color map problem, dies at 80," The Washington Post, 30 April 2013
• "What's the Mathematically Optimum Jury Size? Is it 12, Six, or One?" Slate, 25 April 2013
• "Here's How Little Math Americans Actually Use at Work," The Atlantic, 24 April 2013
• "Obama vs. Bieber: French Geeks Compute Who's Bigger on Twitter," Bloomberg, 18 April 2013
• "Pascal’s shell game," The Age, 15 April 2013
• "Want to Fight Disease? Do Your Math Homework," WUWM, 12 April 2013
• "Students honored for research," Science News, 6 April 2013
• "Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math," The Wall Street Journal, 5 April 2013
• "Solid or Liquid? Physicists Redefine States of Matter," Wired, 5 April 2013
• "Applicants’ weak math skills sum up problem for those looking to hire," The Seattle Times, 4 April 2013
• "Mathematician who speaks at UNR Thursday gives advice for amateur gamblers, has surprising answer on why people should learn math," Reno Gazette Journal, 2 April 2013

March

• Blogs on networks and MOOCs
• "It's a science for crash detectives," The Providence Journal, 26 March 2013
• "The Minds Behind the MOOCs,"by Steve Kolowich. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 March 2013
• Media coverage of the Abel prize
• "Should business be allowed to patent mathematics?" New Scientist, 18 March 2013
• "Math geeks everywhere are enjoying a slice of pi today," USA Today, 14 March 2013
• "Missing Math Experts," Inside Higher Ed, 13 March 2013
• "Pixar's Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love," The Verge, 7 March 2013
• "As Math Grows More Complex, Will Computers Reign?," Wired, 4 March 2013
• "In Pursuit of the Impossible Equation," by The Chronicle of Higher Education
• "A Museum of Math," Sunday Morning, CBS, 3 March 2013
• "Rolla Math Professor Lands Spot on Jeapordy [what is sic?]. KMOX (St. Louis), 2 March 2013; "S & T professor places 2nd on 'Jeopardy!'," Rolla Daily News, 6 March 2013
• "This Is the Hardest Math Problem in the World," Publishers Weekly, 1 March 2013
• "The Music of Math Games," American Scientist, March-April 2013
• "First Links in the Markov Chain," American Scientist, March-April 2013
• "Adventures in Mathematical Knitting," American Scientist, March-April 2013

February

• Blogs on girls and science and on green mathematics
• "Newsmakers: Three Q's," Science, 22 February 2013
• "A mathematician puts Fermat's Last Theorem on an axiomatic diet," Science News, 20 February 2013
• "Don’t Let Economists and Politicians Hack Your Math," Slate, 8 February 2013
• "Honoring the Best and Brightest" and "Lubchenco Earns Spanish Research Prize." News. Science, 8 February 2013
• "Mathematician discovers largest prime (so far)," The Christian Science Monitor, 5 February 2013
• "Hard to Put Red-Light Violations Under a Lens," The Wall Street Journal, 1 February 2013

January

• Blogs on mathematics and arts
• "Making Math Pop," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 January 2013
• "What goes wrong when talks break down," Science News, 12 January 2013
• "Mathematician stepping on thin ice," U-T San Diego, 11 January 2013
• "The Always Playful Genius of Erik Demaine," Popular Science, 8 January 2013
• Media coverage of the National Who Wants to Be a Mathematician contest

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