Math Stories for 2012

Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven 186
Juggling By the Numbers 59
TI-84+C-Silver Edition: That C Stands For Color 198
Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box? 254
One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators 203
In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad 170
Statistics Key To Success In Run-and-Gun Basketball 97
Linux On the TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator 49
Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists 227
Nate Silver Turns His Eye To the American League 50
Fabricating Nature and a Physical Turing Test 36
With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race 622
Evidence for Unconscious Math, Language Processing Abilities 168
How To Build a Supercomputer In 24 Hours 161
Physicist Explains Cthulhu's "Non-Euclidean Geometry" 179
Ask Slashdot: Mathematical Fiction? 278
Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal 197
Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light 381
Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon 109
Promoting Arithmetic and Algebra By Example 158
When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm 245
Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete 135
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Found Calculators? 302
Possible Proof of ABC Conjecture 102
Fujitsu Building Robot To Pass Math Exams 75
The Problems With Online Math Classes 285
Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate 519
Universal Turing Machine In Penrose Tile Cellular Automata 24
Stanford Researchers Discover the 'Anternet' 133
Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time 262
The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy 1469
How Big Data Became So Big 105
Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11 83
Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? 1086
A New Glider Found For Conway's Game of Life 50
The Chaos Within Sudoku - a Richter Scale of Difficulty 74
Lies, Damned Lies, and Quantum Statistics 53
Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 397
New Moxie Marlinspike Tool Cracks Crypto Passwords 71
Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? 1010
Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" 561
Algorithmic Pricing On Amazon 'Could Spark Flash Crash' 274
World's Hardest Sudoku 179
When Your e-Books Read You 105
Teaching Natural Sciences To Social Science Students? 265
Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom 83
The Physics of the Knuckleball 87
University Students Become Superheroes To Teach STEM Education 55
Fujitsu Cracks Next-Gen Cryptography Standard 99
Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically 207
The Art of Elections Forecasting 101
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? 416
Mathematicians Show Why Bubbles Sink in Nitrogen-Infused Stouts 55
350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old 414
'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math 325
World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure 159
The Mathematics of Obesity 655
Octave and Gnuplot Coming To Android 84
Goldbach Conjecture: Closer To Solved? 170
Google Releases Key Part of Street View Pipeline 44
The Science of Handedness 258
The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash 371
Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive 404
Travelling Salesman, Thriller Set In a World Where P=NP 165
Brain Scan Can Predict Math Mistakes 133
The Artificial Life of the App Store 106
Julia Language Seeks To Be the C For Numerical Computing 204
The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws 378
Quantum Random Numbers 167
How Windows FreeCell Gave Rise To Online Crowdsourcing 93
Statistical Analysis Raises Civil War Death Count By 20% 139
How To Share a Cake Over the Internet 123
Rybka Solves the King's Gambit Chess Opening 206
16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft 160
Blackjack Player Breaks the Bank At Atlantic City 294
Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable 183
The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math 311
Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers 375
10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day 196
Using Graph Theory To Predict NCAA Tournament Outcomes 91
Pi Day Is Coming — But Tau Day Is Better 241
LastCalc Is Open Sourced 103
Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard 204
App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students 13
Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks 446
Chrome Users Are Best With Numbers, IE Users Worst 203
Is Poor Numeracy Ruining Lives? 489
The Math of Leap Days 225
Too Many Connections Weaken Networks 48
Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Posthumous Paper 111
How Companies Learn Your Secrets 354
Perl Data Language 2.4.10 released 94
Pac-Man Is NP-Hard 195
Faster-Than-Fast Fourier Transform 271
Statisticians Uncover the Mathematics of a Serial Killer 164
Lower Limit Found For Sudoku Puzzle Clues 121
Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa 457