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IEEE Spectrum
April 2010
Clive Feather |
A Garden of Mathematical Delights Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns collected in book form, "Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi"  |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2010
Stephen Mauzy |
The Only Way to Be 100% Sure Tread carefully when calculating investing odds. Investors are attempting to quantify the unquantifiable when they attach concrete probabilities to investing outcomes.  |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Willie D. Jones |
A New Algorithm to Attack Art Fraud Sparse-coding technique spots fakes. Mathematicians at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., may have the answer. They recently presented a computer-based statistical analysis technique which they say will help art historians and conservators discover even the most skilled forgery. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010 |
The Beauty of Math Incalculable beauty is the result when equations produce fractals |
Popular Mechanics
February 18, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2010
Susan Karlin |
Book: Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age A computer scientist, Gregg Braden uses the laws of fractal patterns to predict the end of the world in his new book. |
Chemistry World
December 10, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Solving fibril formation "It really is a case of the ideas of mathematics and physics helping us to understand chemistry and biology," says Chris Dobson of the University of Cambridge. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Prachi Patel |
Math and Gender Women do best in math wherever women do best in everything else |
Scientific American
September 2009
Michael Tennesen |
More Animals Seem to Have Some Ability to Count Counting may be innate in many species |
Fast Company
September 2009
Heath & Heath |
The Gripping Statistic: How to Make Your Data Matter A good statistic is one that aids a decision or shapes an opinion. For a stat to do either of those, it must be dragged within the everyday. |
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