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)
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 Morning 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)