Math Stories for 2009

Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture 241
Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern 181
The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282
Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries 221
"Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered 255
The Math of a Fly's Eye May Prove Useful 90
90% of 200 CUNY Students Can't Do Basic Algebra Problems 20
What Computer Science Can Teach Economics 421
Why Computers Suck At Math 626
How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? 823
Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters 597
12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 232
New Comic Book About Logic, Math, and Madness 99
Math Indicates Pollster Is Forging Results 319
Finding the First Trillion Congruent Numbers 94
BellKor Wins Netflix $1 Million By 20 Minutes 104
Dead Salmon's "Brain Activity" Cautions fMRI Researchers 287
Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models 300
Big Bang Could Be Recreated Inside a Metamaterial 113
Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits 432
A Mathematical Model For a Spreading Zombie Infestation 121
Schneier On Self-Enforcing Protocols 207
New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers 264
Visualizing False Positives In Broad Screening 365
Making Cesium Atoms Do a Quantum Walk 117
Fermilab Detects "Doubly Strange" Particle 36
IBM Claims Breakthrough In Analysis of Encrypted Data 199
Visualizing the Ideological History of SCOTUS 151
Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election 512
47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed 89
Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate 339
Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? 884
String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids 348
The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap 588
Paul Wilmott Wants To Retrain and Reform Wall Street's Quants 198
Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha 124
New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers 509
A Look At the Wolfram Alpha "Search Engine" 216
Future of Financial Mathematics? 301
Physicists Propose New Kind of Quantum Tunneling 163
Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking 415
Strings Link the Ultra-Cold With the Super-Hot 236
Baby Chicks Have Innate Mathematical Skills 184
Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? 236
If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons 610
Massive Open Collaboration In Math Declared a Success 60
8-Year-Old Boy Sets A-Level Maths Record 16
Data Mining Moves To Human Resources 262
Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families 616
March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day 321
Packing Algorithms May Save the Planet 195
The Formula That Killed Wall Street 561
Interview With Alan Feng of Starcraft College Class Fame 46
Mathematics Reading List For High School Students? 630
Sacrificing Accuracy For Speed and Efficiency In Processors 499
Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances 684
The Perils of Simplifying Risk To a Single Number 286

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't.