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Science News
June 8, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Fractal Roots and Artful Math The MathArt/ArtMath exhibition showcases mathematical art.   |
Science News
June 1, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Setting Records Randomly Athletic record-breaking occurs in such small increments that chance factors loom large. Mathematicians and statisticians have sought recently to learn more about the role of randomness in records... |
Science News
May 18, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
A Lawyer's Math Library Born in 1873, Kentucky lawyer William Marshall Bullitt throughout his long life believed firmly in the value of mathematics. His library of rare mathematical and astronomical books at the University of Louisville library is little-known but incredible... |
Science News
May 11, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Song-and-Dance Fermat Fermat's Last Tango, a musical based on the story of Fermat's last theorem and the quest to prove it, is cheerful, clever, and entertaining. Its varied music is engaging. It puts mathematics on display as an intensely human endeavor... |
Science News
May 4, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Prime Spirals There is truly not only mystery but also beauty in the distribution of prime numbers... |
Science News
April 27, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Getting Clobbered Clobber is a new two-person game that's easy to learn and fun to play and, for the mathematically inclined, rife with analytical possibility... |
Science News
April 13, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Tricky Dice Revisited The game involves a set of four cubic dice, each one numbered differently. You let your opponent pick any one of the four dice. You choose one of the remaining three. Each player tosses his or her die, and in a game involving 10 or more turns, you will nearly always have more wins... |
Science News
April 6, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
The EKG Sequence Sequences of numbers have long fascinated both amateur and professional mathematicians. Here's a recently discovered example that has prompted some serious mathematical investigation... |
Science News
March 30, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Rainbow Randomness The branch of pure mathematics known as Ramsey theory concerns the existence of highly regular patterns in sufficiently large sets of randomly selected objects. Patterns can arise out of randomness in a variety of ways... |
Science News
March 16, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Highway Relativity Freeway drivers often get the sense that the other lane is moving faster than the one they're in. A number of recent mathematical studies have shown that this owes to both truth and quirks of perception... |
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