Math Stories for 2011

New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological 472
Isaac Newton's Notes Digitized 92
Researchers Create a Statistical Guide To Gambling 185
Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? 845
$50,000 To Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever 180
Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol 191
End Bonuses For Bankers 548
Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered 134
Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness 189
Mathematically Pattern-Free Music 234
Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard 260
Pi Computed To 10 Trillion Digits 414
The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama 334
Indian Mathematician Takes Shot At Proving Riemann Hypothesis 160
Dan Shechtman Wins Chemistry Nobel For Quasicrystals 74
Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science 271
Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads? 393
Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans 331
Ask Slashdot: Math Curriculum To Understand General Relativity? 358
Emergent Gravity Disproved 102
Scientists Map Spiraling Light For Faster Net 62
When Algorithms Control the World 150
13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough 410
CERN Physicist Says Dark Matter May Be an Illusion 379
IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon 220
Microsoft Demonstrates Practical Homomorphic Computing 141
The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing 514
Archaeologist May Have Found the First Protractor 78
Fond Memories of Nerd Camp 116
Green Card Lottery Judgment Favors Mathematical Randomness 210
Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents 213
Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size 139
Mathematics Museum To Open In Manhattan 80
Happy Tau Day 298
Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday 146
Collatz Proof Proposed: Hailstone Sequences End In 1 90
Upscaling Retro 8-Bit Pixel Art To Vector Graphics 325
Matlab Integrates GPU Support For UberMath Computation 89
Algorithm Glitch Voids Outcome of US Green Card Lottery 131
Hewlett Packard's Cult Calculator Turns 30 318
Forty Years of P=NP? 222
Patent 5,893,120 Reduced To Pure Math 323
Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared 212
Speed Tickets Challenged Based On Timestamped Photos 566
Students Claim New Paper Folding Record 138
Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? 636
Kyoto Prize Laureate Unsnarls Electronic Networks 36
SQL and NoSQL are Two Sides of the Same Coin 259
Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds 180
Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum 490
12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity 588
Friends Don't Let Geek Friends Work In Finance 732
Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Students? 225
17-Year-Old Wins Intel's $100K Science Prize 271
The Science of Stout Beer 205
Happy Pi Day 341
CS Profs Debate Role of Math In CS Education 583
What Pi Sounds Like 178
Gosper's Algorithm Meets Wall Street Formulas 124
No P = NP Proof After All 318
Erdos' Combinatorial Geometry Problem Solved 170
Chess Games Translated To Music 87
Ants Build Cheapest Networks 108
Rediscovering WWII's Top-Secret Computing 'Rosies' 113
Algorithm Contest Aims To Predict Health Problems 138
Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets 374
Julia Meets HTML5 129
The Hidden Reality Draws Ire From Physicists 387
Ancient Puzzle Gets New Lease on 'Geomagical' Life 73
Euler's Partition Function Theory Finished 117
How Long Before Apps Overtake Physical Video Game Content Sales? 144

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