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Science News
October 20, 2007
Julie Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: The Ignobility of Wrinkles A mathematician and physicist working together won an Ig Nobel Prize for the study of rumpled sheets: Despite the light-heartedness of the prize, the team's work has been in earnest.   |
Science News
October 13, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Tangled Tale A jostled string forms knots quickly and there is an entire branch of mathematics devoted to understanding the formation of these knots. |
Science News
October 6, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Prayer for Archimedes A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus. |
Science News
September 22, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: The Essence of Group Conflict A mathematical model shows that separation with poorly defined boundaries leads to ethnic violence. |
Science News
September 15, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Separate Is Never Equal A mathematical model for understanding the interaction between social segregation and economic inequality. |
Science News
September 8, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: May the Best Team Win Designing a sports schedule so the strongest team prevails: The winner of the Superbowl or World Series is that season's best-performing team. Right? Wrong, according to scientists. |
Science News
September 1, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Kidney Matchmaking A new method of matching patients and donors could make transplants possible for thousands more. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
Steven Cherry |
Bet on It! Can a stock market of ideas help companies predict the future? |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
Robert W. Lucky |
Math Blues Has mathematics disappeared behind the screens of our monitors, as have so many other subjects since engineering began to center increasingly on writing software? |
Science News
August 25, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Squashing Worms A mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research has mathematically analyzed the question of which computers to patch first when a mutating worm is spreading through the Internet. |
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