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12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000
A Quantum Linear Equation Solver
Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler
Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica 7
What Computer Science Can Teach Economics
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!
How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement
Swedish Mathematician Lennart Carleson Wins Abel
The Mathletes and the Miley Photoshop
Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs?
Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis
Packing Algorithms May Save the Planet
How the Pentagon Got Its Shape
Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics
Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World?
I Will Derive
New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0
Open Source Math
Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit
Mathematicians Deconstruct US News College Rankings
Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented?
Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked
Major Advances In Knot Theory
The Formula That Killed Wall Street
Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree?
Quantum Test Found For Mathematical Undecidability
Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme
Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student?
Baby Chicks Have Innate Mathematical Skills
Software To Improve AIDS Survival?
Calculating the Date of Easter
Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War?
Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries
Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal
Know How To Use a Slide Rule?
Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier?
The Perils of Simplifying Risk To a Single Number
Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering?
A Mighty Number Falls
AJAX Version of Mathematica Coming
Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation?
Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold
"Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered
47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed
Möbius Strip Riddle Solved
4D Analogue of Megaminx Puzzle
How To See In Four Dimensions
Best Way To Teach Oneself Math?
Mathematics Reading List For High School Students?
Massive Open Collaboration In Math Declared a Success
A Quasi-Quasicrystal
First "Observation" of Hawking Radiation
Modern LaTeX Replacement?
New Method for Rendering Particles Outlined
Party Ideas For Math Nerds?
Six-Dimensional Space-Time Theory
The Accidental Astrophysicists
The Big Bang Vs. the Big Rumble
Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians
Edward Lorenz, Father of Chaos Theory, Dies at 90
Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics
Achieving Mathematical Proofs Via Computers
No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys
The 23 Toughest Math Questions
Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will?
111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi
44 Conjectures of Stephen Wolfram Disproved
45th and 46th Mersenne Primes Confirmed
90% of 200 CUNY Students Can't Do Basic Algebra Problems
A Look At the Wolfram Alpha "Search Engine"
A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education
A Step Towards Proving the Riemann Hypothesis
Alternate Baseball Universes
Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers
BellKor Wins Netflix $1 Million By 20 Minutes
Big Bang Could Be Recreated Inside a Metamaterial
Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed
Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?
Bringing Science and Math Into Writing?
Building a 5-Ton Calculator From 19th-Century Plans
Busting the MythBusters' Yawn Experiment
Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters
Controversy Over 140-Year-Old Math Problem
Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447?
Dead Salmon's "Brain Activity" Cautions fMRI Researchers
E8 Structure Decoded
Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics
Fermilab Detects "Doubly Strange" Particle
Fewer Shuffles Suffice
Finding the First Trillion Congruent Numbers
Formula For Procrastination Found
Full Net Census Takes a Hint From xkcd
Future of Financial Mathematics?
Government Efficiency and Network Theory
Happy Pi Day
How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class?
How To Import Raw Political Data For Crunching
IBM Claims Breakthrough In Analysis of Encrypted Data
If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons
Making Cesium Atoms Do a Quantum Walk
Mathematica 6 Launched
Mathematical Modeling Used To Track and Label
Mathematicians Design Invisible Tunnel
Mechanical Reasoners Battle It Out In Sydney Today
Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances
NIST Publishes Preview of Math Reference
New Comic Book About Logic, Math, and Madness
New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers
Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem?
Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer
Paul Wilmott Wants To Retrain and Reform Wall Street's Quants
Physicists Propose New Kind of Quantum Tunneling
Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof
Road Coloring Problem Solved
Rubik's Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down to 23 Moves
Schneier On Self-Enforcing Protocols
Software Is Starting To Aid Mathematical Proofs
Solving Sudoku With dpkg
Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election
String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids
Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha
The Fallacy of Hard Tests
The Grammy In Mathematics
The Math of a Fly's Eye May Prove Useful
The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap
The Viterbi Algorithm and Quantum Communications
Tweaking The Math Behind Political Representation
Visualizing the Ideological History of SCOTUS
Wednesday Is Pi Day
Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From?
Wolfram Offers Prize For (2,3) Turing Machine
Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families
Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math
Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist?
Patterns in Lottery Numbers
Light-based Quantum Circuit Does Basic Maths
Discouraging Students from Taking Math
Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack
Does Mathematical Tuning Make Games Better?
Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams
Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong
FBI Bullet Analysis Technique Invalidated With Science
Former Crypto-Analyst Analyzes the Danger of Nuclear Weapon Stockpiles
Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections
Has the Higgs Boson Particle Field Been Hiding in Plain Sight?
Mathematician Theorizes a Crystal As Beautiful As A Diamond
Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams
NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm
New Similarity Index Speeds File-Sharing
Newton's Second Law, Revisited
Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize
Psychologists Don't Know Math
Riding the Failure Cascade
Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster
The Gap Between Stats and Understanding In Flu Cases
The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms
The Math of Text Readability
The Science Education Myth
The Uncertain Future of Global Population Numbers
Western-Style Voting 'A Loser'
Winnie Wrote a Math Book
Wiki to Help Solve Millennium Problems?
Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture
Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry
The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market?
How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System?
What Jobs are Available for Math Majors?
Van Gogh Painted Turbulence
Statistical Accuracy of Internet Weather Forecasts
Data Mining Moves To Human Resources
New Yorker on Perelman and Poincaré Controversy
The Rise of the (Financial) Machines
42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta
Image of Popeye Enters Public Domain In the EU
45th Known Mersenne Prime Found?
Brains Hard-Wired for Math
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python
2006 Fields Medalists Announced
Poincare Conjecture Proof Completed
Working Calculator Created in LittleBigPlanet
Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits
New Record Prime Found
The Trouble With Rounding Floats
Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software
Another Millenium Problem May Have Been Solved
Divine Proportions
Eureka! Archimedes Revealed
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition
US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops
Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People
Tying Knots With Light
The Geometry of Music
New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers
Boys with Longer Ring Fingers are Better at Math
Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits
Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves
The Evolution of Language
The Manga Guide to Statistics