Press Coverage and Articles

Here are some press reports and general-interest articles on experimental mathematics, most recent listed first.

1. NewScientist article on e and Schnauel's conjecture (18 July 2007): HTML
2. American Scientist article on the changing standards of mathematical proof -- mentions experimental math and the two experimental math books (Jan 2007): PDF
3. Science article on Helaman Ferguson mentions PSLQ and the pi algorithm (20 Oct 2006). PDF
4. New Scientist article notes that mathematical proofs are getting harder to verify (19 Feb 2006): HTML
5. SIAM article on algorithmic science and engineering -- mentions Mathematics by Experiment (Jun 2006): HTML
6. Gregory Chaitin's Scientific American article on the limits of mathematics -- mentions experimental math and references Mathematics by Experiment (Mar 2006): HTML| Chaitin's copy of article: HTML
7. David Bailey, Peter Borwein and Simon Plouffe have been nominated for the Edge of Computation Science Prize (Nov 2005): HTML
8. Science News article about experimental mathematics (24 Apr 2004): PDF
9. New York Times article about the controversy surrounding Tom Hales' computer-assisted proof of the Kepler conjecture (6 Apr 2004): HTML
10. Scientific American article about experimental mathematics (May 2003): PDF
11. Science News article about randomness of pi(1 Sep 2001): PDF.
12. Science article about randomness of pi (3 Aug 2001): PDF.
13. New York Times article about Tom Hales' computer-assisted proof of the Kepler conjecture (25 Aug 1998): HTML