Math Stories for 2010

Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law 166
Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line 464
Mathematics As the Most Misunderstood Subject 680
Exposing the Link Between Cell Phones and Fertility 112
'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget 760
String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions 307
Statistical Analysis of Terrorism 265
Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired by Ants 106
ChromeOS Laptop-Smashing Ad Equation Solved 164
Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration 473
Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold 160
Aussie Government Competition To Predict Commute Times 79
How the 'Tech Worker Visa' Is Remaking IT In America 436
Traffic Jams In Your Brain 250
Free-Form Linguistic Input In Mathematica 8 84
How To Profit From Planetary-Scale Computing 178
Scientists Overclock People's Brains 314
Fermilab Confirms Evidence of 4th Flavor Neutrino 122
How Much Math Do We Really Need? 1153
How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks 330
Rounding the Bases Faster, With Math 212
Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass 184
Astonishing Speedup In Solving Linear SDD Systems 157
Fermilab To Test Holographic Universe Theory 166
Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85 131
Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 1260
Casio Unveils New Color Screen Graphing Calculator 313
Hawking Radiation Claimed Created In a Lab 129
U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks 124
Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi 299
Super Principia Mathematica 325
How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim 160
School Swaps Math Textbooks For iPads 439
Judging You By the Online Company You Keep 117
New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory 284
Machining a TI-89 Out of Aluminum 148
How Statistics Can Foul the Meaning of DNA Evidence 215
Lies, Damned Lies and Cat Statistics 175
US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign 1268
Possible Issues With the P != NP Proof 147
Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves 309
Claimed Proof That P != NP 457
Counting the World's Books 109
5 Trillion Digits of Pi — a New World Record 299
Chess Ratings — Move Over Elo 133
Beautiful Data 18
TI Calculator DRM Defeated 234
Data Sorting World Record — 1 Terabyte, 1 Minute 129
TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again 417
Student Wants Science To Name 'Hella' Big Number 193
World Cup Prediction Failures 312
Grigory Perelman Turns Down $1M Millennium Prize 226
Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex 284
Daily Kos Pollster Made Up Numbers 546
The Tuesday Birthday Problem 981
Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? 1186
Best Way To Publish an "Indie" Research Paper? 279
Best OSS CFD Package For High School Physics? 105
Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball 142
Deformable Liquid Mirrors For Adaptive Optics 196
First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life 241
For Normals, Jobs' "Retina Display" Claim May Be Fair After All 386
2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why 1042
World Cup Forecasting Challenge For Quants 111
New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M 256
STIX Project Releases v1.0 of Its Scientific Fonts Set 100
Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street 525
Science Luminary Martin Gardner Dead at 95 96
Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? 434
Metrics Mania and the Countless Counting Problem 138
Boltzmann Equation Solved, the New Way 104
The Futurama of Physics 150
NIST Releases Updated Handbook of Math Functions 128
Position-Based Quantum Cryptography Proved Secure 45
MATLAB Can't Manipulate 64-Bit Integers 334
What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic 359
The Data-Driven Life 96
At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds 449
Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" 419
Help Me Get My Math Back? 467
Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies 389
Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize 421
BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More 427
Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? 609
Millennium Prize Awarded For Perelman's Poincaré Proof 117
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Uses Games To See the Future 134
Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics 429
Pi Day and an Interview With a Pi Researcher 188
Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked 90
Algebra In Wonderland 184
Recovering Data From Noise 206
Scientists Develop Financial Turing Test 184
Key Letter By Descartes Found After 170 Years 165
IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm 231
New Method for Random Number Generation Developed 395
Math Anxiety Affects Skills As Basic As Counting 210
7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators 289
Data Mining Competition To Improve Drug Safety 36
How To Misuse Statistics 20
Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes 538
Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics 572
Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus 192
Which Math For Programmers? 466
New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC 204