The Sciences
The Best Prime Numbers of 2016
Because prime numbers didn't let us down this year.
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The SNCF Metric
All train lines lead to Paris
The Sciences
Avant-Garde Music and Distributed Computing
The program is over when the data have yielded an answer or chosen not to
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What I Would Do with $3 Million for Math
How I would revamp the Breakthrough Prize
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Lexicographic Ordering on the Unit Square
A familiar shape gets weird
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OK Go's Big Math-splosion
"The One Moment" is made possible by numbers
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Hermann Weyl's Poignant Eulogy for Emmy Noether
Weyl's eulogy for Emmy Noether starts to sound like a eulogy for German mathematics
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Overthinking an Erdős Quote about Ramsey Numbers and Evil Aliens
Paul Erdős versus Moore's law
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Sierpinski Triangle
The fractal you can make with candy corn
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Ramsey Theory on Facebook
Not long ago, I noticed that I had six Facebook friends with the same birthday, and none of them knew each other. Here's why I was excited.
Culture
Review: Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly's book about NASA's black women mathematicians and engineers is timely and eye-opening
The Sciences
Meet the Metallic Means
The golden ratio is familiar to many math enthusiasts—what about the silver ratio? Bronze? Aluminum?
Bagels, Pretzels and the Nobel Prize in Physics
If you're baffled by the phrase “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter,” we're here to help
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Borromean Rings
Any two rings are disconnected from one another, but together they cannot be separated
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Math Art to Love
A roundup of my posts about mathematical art—#loveyourmath
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Zeno on the Mountain
Hiking my way to a new appreciation of a classic mathematical paradox
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A Mathematical Birthday Life Hack
Save money and be the life of the next party with this one weird trick
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How Converting between Addition and Multiplication Makes Math Easier
The power of logarithms, zero and the word or
The Sciences
Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
In an important new book, Cathy O'Neil warns us that algorithms can and do perpetuate inequality
The Sciences
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Connected Sum of Four Hopf Links
The mathematics of the Olympic rings
