Math Stories for 2019

Microsoft Wants Schoolchildren Playing Minecraft To Learn Math 39
Facebook Has a Neural Network That Can Do Advanced Math 36
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
Mathematician Proves Huge Result on 'Dangerous' Problem 167
Mathematicians Catch a Pattern By Figuring Out How To Avoid It 26
How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class 220
Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint 57
US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills 88
AI Cracks Centuries-Old 'Three Body Problem' In Under a Second 146
Mathematician Solves 48-Year-Old Problem, Finds New Way To Multiply 107
Should High School Computer Science Classes Count as a Math Credit? 222
Da Vinci Bridge Design Holds Up Even After 500 Years, MIT Proves 79
Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong 123
Two Mathematicians Solve Old Math Riddle, Possibly the Meaning of Life 93
How One City Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm 85
Dark Matter May Predate the Big Bang, New Math Suggests 112
Decades-Old Computer Science 'Boolean Sensitivity' Conjecture Solved in Two Pages 101
Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem 153
Remembering The ENIAC Programmers 85
The League of Entropy Forms To Offer Acts of Public Randomness 66
A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture Is Disproved 49
Bees Can Link Symbols To Numbers, Study Finds 51
Researchers Solve Mystery of the Galaxy With No Dark Matter 102
The Geometry of An Electron Determined For the First Time 59
How a Professor Beat Roulette, Crediting a Non-Existent Supercomputer 156
Measurements Confirm Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected 186
LeBron James' STEM-Based School Is Showing Promise 102
Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus 222
Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations 130
Is Statistical Significance Significant? 184
Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds 228
Musician Creates a Million-Hour Song Based On the Number Pi 65
Google Smashes the World Record For Calculating Digits of Pi 132
CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions 135
Ajit Pai's Rosy Broadband Deployment Claim May Be Based On Gigantic Error 121
Your GPS Devices May Stop Working On April 6 If You Don't Or Can't Update Firmware 149
In China, Some Teachers Are Using AI To Grade Homework 58
Bees Can Solve Math Problems With Addition and Subtraction 72
Legendary Mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah Dies at Age 89 38
Oregon Unconstitutionally Fined a Man $500 for Saying 'I am an Engineer,' Federal Judge Rules 331

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