Math Trek

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    Humanitarian Statistics

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

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    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.

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    Spoil-Proofing Elections

    The only way to ensure that the person the voters prefer walks away the winner, mathematicians say, is to fundamentally change voting procedures.

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  4. Math

    The Geometry of Music

    Music is an audible exploration of hyperdimensional geometries, according to new research.

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    A Mathematical Tragedy

    Sophie Germain had a bold program to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, but it was doomed to fail.

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    An Attack on Fermat

    The first female research mathematician had a program to solve Fermat's Last Theorem, and it was almost lost to history.

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    Math on Display

    Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork.

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    The Grammy in Mathematics

    Mathematician nominated for award for restoring the only known recording of a live Woody Guthrie performance.

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  9. Math

    Getting Old, Faster and Faster

    The world population is aging fast, but is still younger than we tend to think.

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  10. Math

    Benjamin Franklin Plays Sudoku

    Founding father entertained himself devising beautiful mathematical puzzles.

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    Checking It Twice

    Election officials have had no practical way to guarantee a correct ballot count—until now.

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    Small Infinity, Big Infinity

    A mathematician develops a new proof showing that infinity comes in different sizes.

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