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  1. Math

    The Noisy Game of Baseball

    Predicting a baseball player's future batting average (and many other things) is not as simple as relying on past performance, mathematicians say.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  2. Math

    Creeping Up on Riemann

    Theorists find the first example of an elusive complex function that just may help them solve the biggest problem in mathematics.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  3. Math

    Humanitarian Statistics

    From Iraq to Sierra Leone to New Orleans, statistical tools help guide responses to human rights crises.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  4. Math

    Sacred Geometry

    Beginning in the 17th century, the Japanese adorned temples with beautiful wooden tablets that depicted mathematical questions and theorems, apparently as offerings to the gods.