God Plays Dice

During the Olympics (yeah, I know, you've all forgotten about the Olympics), there was much argument about whether the right thing to do...

Here is an MP3 interview with Tim Gowers about The Princeton Companion to Mathematics , of which he is one of the editors. It's $100. ...

Robert at Casting Out Nines reports the new that the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search claims to have found the 45th Mersenne prime, bu...

Birth Control for Giants , by Joel Spencer and Nick Wormald . It's about avoiding the birth of the "giant component" in a ran...

Are there Fibonacci numbers which are also powers of 2, other than the obvious ones? The sequence of Fibonacci numbers begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5,...

When was the last time you made a sign error? When was the last time you visualized something upside-down by mistake? I thought so. Marcel...

Trivium Mathématique , V. I. Arnold (in French) is a list of 100 problems that Arnold set as a list of mathematical problems that (universit...