In the News...

• Announcements:
  • (7 Dec 2006) Professor Emeritus and former MAA president Don Kreider has died.
    Memorial Service and other information.
    See the MAA article at the MAA.
  • (2 Jun 2005) Professor Carl B. Pomerance has been elected First Vice-President of the MAA for 2006-2008.
  • (30 Mar 2005) Professor Kenneth P. Bogart (1943 - 2005)
  
  
• Documentaries:
  • The Math Life (A documentary film by Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake, and Dan Rockmore)
  
  
• Photographs:
  • You're never too old to savor a good math book....
    Edward Shapiro (Valley News front page, 13 August 1999).
  
  
• Newspaper and Journal Articles:
  • A Day of Pleasant Puzzlement - The Valley News covers Mechanical Puzzles Day, a well-received symposium organized by Professor Peter Winkler.
  • January 2008 cover of the Notices of the AMS, for which Alexander Barnett has computed all eigenmode and random-wave images
  • Dartmouth students build online archive featuring historic mathematician (Susan Knapp, Dartmouth College, Feb 1, 2007)
  • The professor's days are numbered (Keith O'Brien, Boston Globe, July 18, 2005)
  • Count Him In. Math? It's All Around to Be Found. One Writer Is Positive He's Equal to the Task (Linton Weeks, Washington Post, May 23, 2005)
  • As the Stakes Increase, Prime-Number Theory Moves Closer to Proof (Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2005)
  • Crunching the Numbers. The Math Society gains momentum (Vox, Volume XXIII, Issue 9, January 10, 2005)
    (local copy)
  • Exploiting a Beautiful Mind ( Daniel Rockmore, The Chronicle Review, January 25, 2002)
  • Count on Numbers to always be there ( Daniel Rockmore, Boston Globe, Aug 8, 2000)
  • Logic is the Language of Love ( Daniel Rockmore, Dallas Morning News, July 7, 2000)
  • Uncertainty is Certain in Mathematics and Life (Daniel Rockmore, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 23, 2000)
  • What are the chances of that? (Richard Morin, Washington Post, April 4, 1999)
  
  
• Radio:
  • Professor Peter Winkler speaks on Sudoku-mania (The Exchange on NHPR, 2 June 2006).
    
  • Mathematical Commentaries: a series on Vermont Public Radio,
    presented by Professor Dan Rockmore (requires Real Audio Player )
  • Math, a love story (25 Jul, 2002)
  • Science Heroes and 'QED' (10 Jul, 2002)
  • New York Zeros (26 Jun, 2002)
  • Four degrees of Kelvin (11 Oct, 2001)
  • Six Hugs Away (2 Oct, 2001)
  • Wrestling with the Squared Circle (24 May, 2001)
  • Halving Your Cake (16 April, 2001)
  • Many Men, No Votes (7 Feb, 2001)
  • In Search of New Numbers (11 Nov, 2000)
  • Can you hear the shape of your date? (19 July, 2000)
  • The Logic of Love (5 July, 2000)
  • Getting lost to get found (4 May, 2000)
  • Oh no! It's Moe (29 Mar, 2000)
  • The geometry of life (5 Jan, 2000)
  • Mathematics of the Millennium (22 Dec, 1999)
  • Jackson Pollock (1 Dec, 1999)
  • Name that Function (3 Nov, 1999)
  • Mathvertising (6 Oct, 1999)
  • My Computer Ate My Homework (22 Sep, 1999)
  • The Rare Beauty of Nine (9 Sep, 1999)
  • Sounds like Science (Math's a Beach) (26 June, 1999)
  • Mathematical Monkeys (May 26, 1999)
  • Sounds like Science (Math and Fashion) (April 24, 1999)
  • Pleasantville (March 16, 1999)
  • Happy ``Pi'' Day (March 14, 1999)
  • Fuzzy Logic and Washington DC (January 20, 1999)
  • A Slice of Pi (November 17, 1998)
  • What does a mathematician do? (October 28, 1998)
  • Math in the movies (October 13, 1998)
  
  
  Last modified on 2 Jun 2006 by trs