This week, division—where many students hit the mathematical wall—is made less confusing
- The New York Times, February 21, 2010
The Enemy of My Enemy→
/The disturbing concept of subtraction, and how we deal with the fact that negative numbers are so … negative
- The New York Times, February 14, 2010
Rock Groups→
/Treating numbers concretely—think rocks, for instance—can make calculations less baffling
- The New York Times, February 7, 2010
From Fish to Infinity→
/A debut column on math features an introduction to numbers, from upsides (they’re efficient) to down (they’re ethereal)
- The New York Times, January 31, 2010
Like Water for Money→
/A hydraulic computer that predicts the economy
- The New York Times, June 2, 2009
Loves Me, Loves Me Not (Do the Math)→
/The ups and downs of love affairs
- The New York Times, May 26, 2009
Math and the City→
/Of mice and Manhattan … and power laws
- The New York Times, May 19, 2009
A Journey to Baseball’s Alternate Universe→
/A statistical look at Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak
- The New York Times, March 30, 2008
How the Blackout Came to Life→
/A technological problem with a biological solution
- The New York Times, August 25, 2003
The Real Scientific Hero of 1953→
/Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Enrico Fermi’s “little discovery”
- The New York Times, March 4, 2003
Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem foreshadows the scientist he later became.
- The New Yorker
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