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Scientific American
February 2007
Steve Mirsky |
The Kindest Cut Always do the math before you divvy.   |
Science News
January 13, 2007
Ivars Peterson |
Art of the Tetrahedron, Revisited A New Orleans sculptor and his tetrahedron-based artworks survived Hurricane Katrina. |
Science News
January 6, 2007
Ivars Peterson |
Laying Track Switches in train track layouts lead to a tangled math problem. |
Chemistry World
January 2007
Philip Ball |
Opinion: The Crucible How did the leopard get its spots? Recent research supports an idea first suggested by legendary code-breaker and British mathematician Alan Turing. |
Science News
December 23, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
The Coin in the Cake Hiding a coin in a cake offers a lucky slice and a tantalizing math problem. |
Science News
December 9, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Travels of a Shopper By comparing shoppers' routes to an idealized mathematical model, marketing researchers found that many shoppers tend to be a lot less efficient than they could be when picking up groceries at the supermarket. |
Smithsonian
December 2006
Eric Jaffe |
Old World, High Tech Using computer imaging techniques previously unavailable to researchers, a team led by mathematician Tony Freeth reconstructed an ancient Greek calendar that was ahead of its time. |
Science News
November 25, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Geometry in Court The Pythagorean theorem and geometric series played leading roles in two legal disputes. |
Science News
November 4, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Designer Decimals Fractions can yield amazingly familiar decimal expansions. |
Science News
October 21, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
The Great Tile Debate From a mathematical standpoint, for subway flooring, why switch from hexagonal to square tiles? |
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