Press Coverage and News Articles

21 Apr 2010

Here are some press reports and general-interest news articles in the area of mathematics and computation, most recent listed first.
  1. David Robson, "Maxed out: How much can we remember?" (mentions digits of pi), New Scientist, 21 Apr 2010, available at Online article.
  2. Justin Mullin, "Schrodinger's cash: Minting quantum money," New Scientist, 20 Apr 2010, available at Online article.
  3. [no author] "First Evidence That Quantum Processes Generate Truly Random Numbers," Technology Review, 13 Apr 2010, available at Online article.
  4. Steven Strogatz, "Take It to the Limit" (current title in a series of articles), New York Times, 4 Apr 2010, available at Online article.
  5. Davide Castelvecchi, "Blog comments point to a new, faster approach in math," Scientific American, 1 Apr 2010, available at Online article.
  6. Dennis Overbye, "Math Expert Wins Wealth, if He Accepts," New York Times, 20 Mar 2010, available at Online article.
  7. Jacob Aron, "Pi day: Five tasty facts about the famous ratio," New Scientist, 12 Mar 2010, available at Online article.
  8. Elizabeth Landau, "On Pi Day, one number 'reeks of mystery'," CNN, 12 Mar 2010, available at Online article.
  9. Michael Brooks, "Roger Penrose: Non-stop cosmos, non-stop career," New Scientist, 10 Mar 2010, available at Online article.
  10. Angela Saini, "Probably guilty: Bad mathematics means rough justice," New Scientist, 28 Oct 2009, available at Online article.
  11. [no author], "47th Mersenne Prime Found," 12 Aug 2009, available at Online article.
  12. Paul Marks, "Ditching binary will make quantum computers more powerful," New Scientist, 10 Aug 2009, available at Online article.
  13. Kurt Kleiner, "Could quantum mathematics shake up Google?" New Scientist, 5 Apr 2009, available at Online article.
  14. Daisuke Takahashi, "Parallel Implementation of Multiple-Precision Arithmetic and 1,649,267,440,000 Decimal Digits of Pi Calculation," 3 Apr 2009, available at Online article.
  15. Michael Brooks, "Rise of the robogeeks," New Scientist, 3 Mar 2009, available at Online article.
  16. Martin Rees, "Mathematics: The only true universal language," New Scientist, 16 Feb 2009, available at Online article.
  17. Christoph Poppe, "Der Computer als Formelentdecker" ("The Computer As Discoverer of Formulas"), Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German edition of Scientific American), Jan 2009, pg. 76-78, available at Online translation.
  18. Jo Marchant, "Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer," New Scientist, 12 Dec 2008, available at Online article.
  19. Mark Buchanan, "Why nature can't be reduced to mathematical laws," New Scientist, 6 Oct 2008, available at Online article.
  20. Natalie Angier, "Gut Instinct's Surprising Role in Math, New York Times, 16 Sep 2008, available at Online article.
  21. Melvyn B. Nathanson, "Desperately Seeking Mathematical Truth", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Aug 2008, pg. 773, available at: Online article.
  22. Marcus du Sautoy, "Grand designs; Symmetry's hidden depths," New Scientist, 11 Jun 2008, available at Online article.