Press Coverage and Articles

Updated 2009-04-03

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

  1. Daisuke Takahashi has computed pi to 1,649,267,440,000 (1.649 trillion) digits. A paper describing this computation is available here (3 Apr 2009): PDF
  2. Article in New Scientist on emerging research in utilizing artificial intelligence techniques and software to generate mathematical results (2 Apr 2009): HTML
  3. New York Times article "Gut Instinct's Surprising Role in Math" (16 Sep 2008): HTML
  4. 45th and 46th Mersenne primes found (Aug 2008): HTML
  5. Op-Ed article "Desperately Seeking Mathematical Truth", in Melvyn B. Nathanson in Notices of the American Mathematical Society (August 2008, pg. 773): PDF
  6. NewScientist article on e and Schnauel's conjecture (18 July 2007): HTML
  7. American Scientist article on the changing standards of mathematical proof -- mentions experimental math and the two experimental math books (Jan 2007): PDF
  8. Science article on Helaman Ferguson mentions PSLQ and the pi algorithm (20 Oct 2006). PDF
  9. New Scientist article notes that mathematical proofs are getting harder to verify (19 Feb 2006): HTML
  10. SIAM News article on algorithmic science and engineering -- mentions Mathematics by Experiment (Jun 2006): HTML
  11. 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
  12. David Bailey, Peter Borwein and Simon Plouffe are nominated for the Edge of Computation Science Prize (Nov 2005): HTML
  13. Science News article about experimental mathematics (24 Apr 2004): PDF
  14. New York Times article about the controversy surrounding Tom Hales' computer-assisted proof of the Kepler conjecture (6 Apr 2004): HTML
  15. Scientific American article about experimental mathematics (May 2003): PDF
  16. Science News article about randomness of pi(1 Sep 2001): PDF.
  17. Science article about randomness of pi (3 Aug 2001): PDF.
  18. New York Times article about Tom Hales' computer-assisted proof of the Kepler conjecture (25 Aug 1998): HTML