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Science News
November 7, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
The Princeton Companion To Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, Ed Students of math will find this book a helpful reference for understanding their classes; students of everything else will find helpful guides to understanding how math describes it all.   |
Science News
October 31, 2008
Julie Rehmeyer |
Unknotting Knot Theory New techniques are beginning to unravel the mysteries of knots, revealing a great mathematical superstructure in the process |
Scientific American
October 2008
Heather Wax |
Using Math to Explain How Life on Earth Began How did self-replicating molecules come to dominate the early earth? Using the mathematics of evolutionary dynamics, Martin A. Nowak can explain the change from no life to life |
Wired
August 2008
Josh McHugh |
Tom Vanderbilt's Why We Drive the Way We Do Unlocks How to Unclog Traffic Researcher uses mathematical algorithms to determine the best decisions to make when stuck in traffic. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2008 |
Teaching Young Biologists New Tricks Nontraditional, active-learning approaches to introductory science and math courses are being tried at colleges such as North Carolina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
Robert W. Lucky |
Zipf Drive How power-law statistics apply to language. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
Joint Venture Plans to Expand Project Euclid Cornell University Library and Duke University Press have established a joint venture to expand the services of the online information community for mathematics and statistics resources from independent publishers. |
Science News
April 12, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: The Noisy Game of Baseball If a baseball player hits well early in the season, will he do just as well later on? |
Science News
April 5, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Creeping Up on Riemann Mathematicians move a step closer to unraveling the mystery of prime numbers. |
Popular Mechanics
April 4, 2008
Brian Janosch |
March Math-ness: Hoops Geek Formulates Nearly Perfect Bracket A meteorologist for the National Weather Service develops a program to predict NCAA winners based on team efficiency while in possession of the ball. |
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