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Math Stories for 2014
The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing 68 commentsCalculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died 170 comments
Cause and Effect: How a Revolutionary New Statistical Test Can Tease Them Apart 137 comments
Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? 280 comments
A Common Logic To Seeing Cats and the Cosmos 45 comments
Mathematical Trick Helps Smash Record For the Largest Quantum Factorization 62 comments
Game Theory Analysis Shows How Evolution Favors Cooperation's Collapse 213 comments
New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism 62 comments
Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election 413 comments
Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice 51 comments
Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors 55 comments
Big Talk About Small Samples 246 comments
How To Mathematically Predict Lightning Strikes 41 comments
Mathematics Great Alexander Grothendieck Dies At 86 49 comments
The Math Behind the Hipster Effect 176 comments
Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing 429 comments
New Website Offers Provably Fair Solutions To Everyday Problems 167 comments
Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart 273 comments
An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man 342 comments
The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google 205 comments
Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage 447 comments
Where Intel Processors Fail At Math (Again) 239 comments
Fixing Steam's User Rating Charts 93 comments
Snowflake-Shaped Networks Are Easiest To Mend 38 comments
David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures 942 comments
Statistician Creates Mathematical Model To Predict the Future of Game of Thrones 127 comments
Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist 356 comments
Researchers Propose a Revocable Identity-Based Encryption Scheme 76 comments
New Study Projects World Population of 11B by 2100 326 comments
ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children 981 comments
Information Theory Places New Limits On Origin of Life 211 comments
Statistics Losing Ground To CS, Losing Image Among Students 115 comments
It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart 243 comments
Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math 214 comments
Maryam Mirzakhani Is the First Woman Fields Medalist 75 comments
About Half of Kids' Learning Ability Is In Their DNA 227 comments
Algorithm Predicts US Supreme Court Decisions 70% of Time 177 comments
The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension 259 comments
Amazon's eBook Math 306 comments
Math, Programming, and Language Learning 241 comments
Walter Munk's Astonishing Wave-Tracking Experiment 55 comments
Mathematicians Solve the Topological Mystery Behind the "Brazuca" Soccer Ball 144 comments
The Billionaire Mathematician 96 comments
Another Dementia Test Oversold 24 comments
How Often Do Economists Commit Misconduct? 305 comments
Visualizing Algorithms 50 comments
Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips 192 comments
Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? 155 comments
The Game Theory of Life 85 comments
Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool 281 comments
Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property 264 comments
Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work 422 comments
R Throwdown Challenge 185 comments
Professors: US "In Denial" Over Poor Maths Standards 688 comments
Discrete Logarithm Problem Partly Solved -- Time To Drop Some Crypto Methods? 114 comments
Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights 490 comments
Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius 208 comments
Mathematicians Push Back Against the NSA 233 comments
Master of Analytics Program Admission Rates Falling To Single Digits 74 comments
Experiment Suggests Monkeys Can Do Basic Math 87 comments
Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All 332 comments
Mathematicians Use Mossberg 500 Pump-Action Shotgun To Calculate Pi 311 comments
Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing 612 comments
Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? 723 comments
MtGox's "Transaction Malleability" Claim Dismissed By Researchers 92 comments
Ties of the Matrix: An Exercise in Combinatorics 51 comments
A Rock Paper Scissors Brainteaser 167 comments
P vs. NP Problem Linked To the Quantum Nature of the Universe 199 comments
Data Mining the Web Reveals What Makes Puzzles Hard For Humans 44 comments
Taxis By Algorithm: Streamlining City Transport With Graph Theory 72 comments
New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path 227 comments
Mathematician Gives Tips On How To Win $1 Billion On NCAA Basketball 76 comments
Happy Pi Day 218 comments
Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math 384 comments
Mathematicians Are Chronically Lost and Confused 114 comments
Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds 231 comments
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? 195 comments
Wolfram Language Demo Impresses 216 comments
Copyright Ruling On Publishing Calculated Results: Common Sense Breaks Out 54 comments
The Neuroscience of Computer Programming 161 comments
Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work 156 comments
Math Models Predicted Global Uprisings 265 comments
A Mathematical Proof Too Long To Check 189 comments
Why Improbable Things Really Aren't 166 comments
Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? 745 comments
Can Electric Current Make People Better At Math? 112 comments
How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage 240 comments
Adjusting GPAs: A Statistician's Effort To Tackle Grade Inflation 264 comments
Second World War Code-cracking Computing Hero Colossus Turns 70 110 comments
Audience Jeers Contestant Who Uses Game Theory To Win At 'Jeopardy' 412 comments
James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering 321 comments
Can Wolfram Alpha Tell Which Team Will Win the Super Bowl? 126 comments
Facebook Mocks 'Infection' Study, Predicts Princeton's Demise 193 comments
Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love 188 comments
Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use 312 comments
Mathematical Model Helps Estimate Optimal Timing of Cyber Attack 31 comments
Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem 162 comments
Algorithm Aims To Predict Fiction Bestsellers 146 comments
World's Oldest Decimal Multiplication Table Discovered 86 comments
The Math of Gamification 36 comments