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• Into the Fold (Smithsonian)
• Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan to Receive 2007 Abel Prize (Abel Prize Website)
• Paul J. Cohen, Mathematics Trailblazer, Dies at 72 (NY Times)
• Mathematicians Map E8 (AIM Website)
• Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime (NY Times)
• Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan to Receive 2007 Abel Prize (Abel Prize Website)
• Mathematicians Map E8 (AIM Website)
• Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime (NY Times)
• In Medieval Architecture, Signs of Advanced Math (NY Times)
• UW Scientists Unlock Major Number Theory Puzzle (University of Wisconsin)
• What a Flake (Science News)
• Crafty Geometry (Science News)
• Largest Known Twin Primes Found
• Foolproof (Mathematical proof is foolproof, it seems, only in the absence of fools) (American Scientist)
• Breakthrough of the Year: The Poincare Conjecture - Proved (Science)
• The Case of Pollock's Fractals Focuses on Physics (NY Times)
• Form Plus Function (Science News)
• As Math Scores Lag, a New Push for the Basics (NY Times)
• Messiness Rules: In high dimensions, disorder packs tightest (Science News)
• Swirling Seas, Crystal Balls (Science News)
• Paul Halmos, 90, Mathematician Known for Simplifying Concepts, Dies (NY Times)
• Shing-Tung Yau: The Emperor of Math (NY Times)
• A Knotty but Useful Pattern (Rice University)
• 44th Known Mersenne Prime Found (GIMPS Homepage)
• MANIFOLD DESTINY, A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it (The New Yorker)
• Fields Medals Awarded to Four (NY Times)
• Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery (NY Times)
• Archimedes' hidden writings revealed with particle accelerator (The Mercury News)
• C. Frederick Mosteller, a Pioneer in Statistics, Dies at 89 (NY Times)
• Chaotic Chomp (Science News)
• Celebrating Puzzles in 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 Moves (or So) (NY Times)
• Irving Kaplansky, 89, a Pioneer in Mathematical Exploration, Is Dead (NY Times)
• Rice Mathematician Gets Handle on Centuries-Old Shape (Rice University)
• Springfield Theory - Mathematical references abound on The Simpsons (Science News)
• 16 Golden Atoms in Search of a Catchy Name (NY Times)
• A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery (NY Times)
• Fibonacci Poems Multiply on the Web After Blog's Invitation (NY Times)
• Lennart Carleson Awarded the Abel Prize
• All Square (a new result on "universal" quadratic forms) (Science News)
• A Movie About the Indian Mathematician Ramanujan is in the Works (BBC)
• Math Will Rock Your World (Business Week)
• Surface Story (Science News)
• 43rd Mersenne Prime Found (MathWorld)
• A World of Teaching and Numbers - Times Two, George and Esther Szekeres, Mathematicians, 1911-2005, 1910-2005 (Sydney
• orning Herald)
• "Pushing the Limit - Digital communications experts are zeroing in on the perfect code" (Science News)
• Raoul Bott Passes Away (Harvard Website)
• RSA-640 Factored (MathWorld)
• On Gravity, Oreos and a Theory of Everything (NY Times)
• Game Theorists Win Nobel Prize for Economics (NY Times)
• Serge Lang Dies at Age 78 (Yale Daily News) A Wikipedia article on Lang is here.
• The Mathematics of Mattress Flipping (American Scientist)
• China takes 1st, U.S. 2nd, Russia 3rd in International Mathematics Olympiad (AMS)
• Between Series, an Actress Became a Superstar (in Math) (NY TImes)
• Major Advance on the Twin Primes Conjecture (MAA)
• George B. Dantzig Dies at 90; Devised Math Solution to Broad Problems (NY Times)
• Navigating Celestial Currents (Science News)
• RSA-200 Factored (MathWorld)
• Saunders Mac Lane, 95, Pioneer of Algebra's Category Theory, Dies (NY Times)
• The Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition problems and results
• Mathematician Untangles Legendary Problem
• Fourth and Tenth Place in the Intel Science Talent Search Go to Math Projects
• Peter D. Lax Awarded Abel Prize
• From Budapest to Los Alamos, a Life in Mathematics (a conversation with Peter Lax) (NY TImes)
• Ramanujan's "Lost" Notebook Astounds Americans (INDOlink)
• 42nd Mersenne Prime Found (MathWorld)
• Origami as the Shape of Things to Come (N.Y. Times)
• Second Place in Siemens Westinghouse Competition Goes to Math Project (reading the abstract requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Sir Edward Wright Has Died (telegraph.co.uk)
• Pennies in a Tray (Science News)
• Problems from the 65th Putnam Math Competition (this requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• A hard, simple problem (The Economist)
• String Theory, at 20, Explains It All (or Not) (NY Times)
• Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, Innovator in New Geometry, Is Dead (NY Times)
• Seven Mathematical Tidbits (MathWorld)
• U.S. Team Places Second in International Mathematical Olympiad (MAA Online)
• International Mathematical Olympiad Problems
• Waring Experiments (Science News)
• 41st Known Mersenne Prime Discovered (GIMPS homepage)
• There Are Arbitrarily Long Sequences of Primes in Arithmetic Progession (MathWorld)
• Theorems for Sale (Science News)
• 41st Known Mersenne Prime Discovered (GIMPS homepage)
• There Are Arbitrarily Long Sequences of Primes in Arithmetic Progession (MathWorld)
• In Math, Computers Don't Lie. Or Do They? (NY Times article on the Kepler Conjecture proof)
• The Not So Random Coin Toss (NPR)
• In Archimedes' Puzzle, a New Eureka Moment (N.Y. Times)
• RSA-576 Factored (MathWorld)
• Largest Prime Number Ever Is Found (New Scientist)
• Perfect Magic Cube of Order Five Discovered (MathWorld)
• There Are No Magic Knight's Tours on the Chessboard (MathWorld)
• Armand Borel, 80, a Leader in 20th-Century Mathematics, Dies (N.Y. Times)
• Error Found in Prime Gap Proof (AMS website)
• Poincare Conjecture Proven? (N.Y. Times)
• H.S.M. Coxeter Dies
• Jean-Pierre Serre Awarded the First Abel Prize
• A Remarkable Dearth of Primes (Math Trek)
• Math's Wild-And-Crazy Guy (Washington Post)
• Archive of Putnam Problems and Solutions [including 2002]
• Professor breaks own record -- for thrill of pi (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Election Selection (Science News)
• Rene Thom, Inventor of Catastrophe Theory, Dies (NY Times)
• Tetris is Hard (Science News)
• Logic in the Blocks (Science News)
• Strategies on Fourth Down, From a Mathematical Point of View (NY Times)
• "Math = Beauty + Truth/(Really Hard)" - an exposition of the Fields medalists' work (Salon.com)
• Obsessing with the Magic of Primes (NY Times)
• Fields Medalists and Nevanlinna Prize Winner Announced
• A Polynomial Time Primality Test Has Been Discovered(NY Times)
• The Repunit R49081 is Probably Prime
• Draft Proof of Catalan's Conjecture Circulated (MathWorld)
• 143-Year-Old Problem Still Has Mathematicians Guessing (NY Times)
• The EKG Sequence (Science News)
• 2^13,466,917 - 1 is prime! (BBC)
• Here is a mathematical programming contest with a prize of $300
• Poincaré Conjecture Purported Proof Perforated (MathWorld)
• Two Gigantic Primes with Prime Digits Found (MathWorld)
• An archive of Putnam Competition problems (including 2001)
• A Hundred-dollar, Hundred-digit Challenge (requires Adobe Acrobat)
• A New Pair of Twin Primes (Science News) "Is Powerball a Mug's Game?" (Slate)
• "The Shape of the Universe: Ten Possibilities (Abstract) (American Scientist)
• "Bubbles and Math Olympiads" (Science News)
• "Pi à la Mode: Mathematicians tackle the seeming randomness of pi's digits" (Science News)
• International Mathematical Olympiad 2001 - Problems and Results
• "Connoisseurs of Chaos Offer a Valuable Product: Randomness" (The New York Times)
• "Circle Games" (Science News)
• "Adding Art to the Rigor of Statistical Science" (The New York Times)
• "A New Solution to the Three-Body Problem" (Notices of the AMS) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• The 31st Fermat Number is Composite
• "Why Mathematicians Now Care About Their Hat Color" (The New York Times)
• Largest Known Twin Primes Discovered
• Two Students Discover a Theorem in Geometry
• "The Story of the 120-Cell" (Notices of the AMS) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• "Is the USGA Golf Handicapping System Equitable?" (Chance) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• "Beyond the Leaky Faucet: Dissecting the Complex Drip" (The New York Times)
• "Claude Shannon, Mathematician, Dies" (The New York Times)
• "The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code" (The New York Times)
• "Math Illiteracy Spells Trouble" (The Washington Post)
• "Mathematicians Solve XFL's Scheduling Problem" (The New York Times)
• "Visions of Infinity - tiling a hyperbolic floor inspires both mathematics and art" (Science News)
• "Zeroing in on the Catalan Conjecture" (Science News)
• "Proof Clarifies a Map Folding Problem" (References and Sources) (Science News)
• "Unlocking Puzzling Polygons" (Science News)
• "Mathematical Devices for Getting a Fair Share" (Abstract) (American Scientist)
• "The Power of Partitions" (Science News)
• "Punctured Polyhedra" (Science News)
• "Foam and Honeycombs" (American Scientist)