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Please find below our 196 posts, ordered by month. This “Table of Contents” is automatically updated.

March 2018 (1)
- 06: Tiling with One Arc-Sided Shape (13)
November 2017 (2)
- 21: Review: Problem Solving and Reasoning With Discrete Mathematics (5)
- 21: Joe Rosenstein: The Art of Being Discrete (5)
August 2017 (2)
- 23: Finding Square Roots Without Estimating (16)
- 08: James Grime: FOOL FOR MATHS* (7)
July 2017 (2)
- 31: Subtraction: What is “the” Standard Algorithm? (8)
- 22: Alan Schoenfeld: At the Boundaries of Effective Mathematics Thinking, Teaching, and Learning (4)
May 2017 (3)
- 31: Dr. Devlin Finds Fibonacci (5)
- 30: Models and Delving Deeper Into Division (2)
- 30: Keith Devlin: An Ambassador of Mathematics for Many Eras (12)
April 2017 (5)
- 29: What’s Hiding Within Long Division? (22)
- 25: Review: SOLVE THIS! A Book for Problem-Solvers (and Those Learning To Join Them) (2)
- 23: James Tanton: An Australian Mathematician in Uncle Sam’s Court (4)
- 04: Which States Are The Best (& Worst) At Math (4)
- 03: Raymond M. Smullyan’s Books Needed No Titles (0)
March 2017 (4)
- 29: Working as a Forensic Accountant: Valuable Core Characteristics (0)
- 27: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Multiplication (with apologies to Wallace Stevens) (9)
- 27: Applying the Platinum Rule: A Conversation With Master Teacher Herb Gross (4)
- 06: The Nightmare of Algorithm Interviews (2)
January 2017 (4)
- 29: Book Review: Peak — Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (5)
- 19: Invasion of the Physicists (0)
- 16: What Can I Do With A Math Degree? (0)
- 08: Should You Get Started in Data Science? (2)
December 2016 (1)
- 19: Separating the Math and the Mathematician (7)
November 2016 (5)
- 30: Arbitrary Precision Integer Arithmetic in the Bourne Again Shell (BASH) (1)
- 10: Did Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Elect Donald Trump? (11)
- 10: Pre-Election Polls That Were Wrong (0)
- 09: Big Data Flubs Donald Versus Hillary (6)
- 06: Algebra, Asimov, and Missing Steps (4)
October 2016 (3)
- 31: Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction (2)
- 17: Data Science Boot Camps II (5)
- 16: A fire destroyed everything I own. Math Blog will be on a hiatus. (7)
August 2016 (4)
- 23: Ronald Fisher and Maximum Likelihood Estimation Video and Slides (2)
- 18: Giveaway: Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel (13)
- 11: July 2016 Noteworthy Math Books (0)
- 06: Playing with Mersenne Numbers (4)
July 2016 (4)
- 29: Using Programming to Teach Mathematics (7)
- 20: Math Teachers Should Encourage Their Students to Count Using Fingers (13)
- 13: GIVEAWAY: The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects (16)
- 06: June 2016 Noteworthy Math Books (0)
June 2016 (6)
- 29: Hard Facts and Statistical “Facts” (3)
- 22: 10 Great Programming Languages for Mathematics (14)
- 22: Summing It Up Giveaway Winner (0)
- 15: GIVEAWAY: Enter to win a copy of Summing It Up (10)
- 08: Solomon Golomb’s Legacy (6)
- 01: May 2016 Noteworthy Math Books (2)
May 2016 (3)
- 25: Math Blog’s Survey Results (1)
- 11: Perform Statistical Analysis Directly from Your Browser (1)
- 04: April 2016 Noteworthy Math Books (2)
April 2016 (1)
- 27: The Princeton Companion Is Back. Sort Of. (0)
February 2016 (1)
- 01: Was Richard Feynman a Great Teacher? (10)
October 2015 (1)
- 23: Data Science Boot Camps (1)
September 2015 (1)
- 22: Can Math Beat the Stock Market? (1)
August 2015 (2)
- 17: Regular Expressions for Numbers in BASH (2)
- 10: The Atomic Age That Wasn’t (0)
June 2015 (1)
- 12: The Corinthian Colleges Scandal, STEM Shortage Claims, and Minorities (18)
May 2015 (1)
- 04: Review of Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide (5)
April 2015 (2)
- 13: Review of Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data (1)
- 06: Review of More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues (2)
March 2015 (3)
- 16: An Introduction to Mathematica (1)
- 16: Measuring Up, SAT Scores, and Coding Interviews (2)
- 09: Review of Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists (1)
February 2015 (1)
- 16: Book Review: e: the Story of a Number (0)
January 2015 (2)
- 26: Updated 2017 – My Review of A Mind for Numbers (7)
- 12: Review of Falling Behind? Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent (6)
July 2014 (2)
- 20: Mathematicians take this survey about your philosophical intuitions (14)
- 14: Martin Fowler’s Design Stamina Hypothesis and Video Compression (11)
June 2014 (1)
- 16: Eugene Goostman, Teenaged AI, and the Definition of Number (1)
May 2014 (2)
- 27: The Mathematics of Terminators (7)
- 05: The Refactoring (3)
March 2014 (2)
- 17: How to Learn Math (12)
- 10: STEM Shortage Claims and Facebook’s $19 Billion Acquisition of WhatsApp (16)
February 2014 (1)
- 03: How to Remember the Key Bayes Formula in Statistics (3)
January 2014 (2)
- 20: Battle of the Nerds: AP Calculus Versus AP Computer Science (4)
- 07: New STEM PhDs and Industry (6)
July 2013 (1)
- 08: The Mathematics of the Manhattan Project (25)
June 2013 (2)
- 10: Math In Action: Video Compression (2)
- 04: Programming is not a Super-Power (49)
May 2013 (1)
- 27: What to do about the Catch-22 STEM Job Market? (3)
March 2013 (2)
- 11: What do STEM employers want? (4)
- 04: The Catch-22 STEM Job Market (4)
February 2013 (1)
- 06: The SIAM Report on Mathematics in Industry 2012 (A Review) (2)
January 2013 (1)
- 21: What is really hot in STEM Jobs? (13)
October 2012 (2)
- 25: How to Become a Successul Data Scientist (1)
- 17: A Public Talk on Quantitative Biology and Cancer Research (0)
September 2012 (2)
- 24: How to Build a Recommendation Engine (3)
- 02: How to Hang Yourself with Statistics (11)
August 2012 (4)
- 26: STEM Shortages, Purple Squirrels, and Leprechauns (12)
- 20: The Ph.D. Glut is Bad for the United States (9)
- 11: The Mathematics of the Ph.D. Glut (24)
- 02: Seven Scientific Calculators for Computer Users (6)
July 2012 (4)
- 30: The Government Did Too Invent the Internet (5)
- 23: Floating Point Arithmetic in the Bourne Again Shell (BASH) (6)
- 15: Displaying Error Bars in GNU Octave (2)
- 09: The Mathematics of Autism (12)
June 2012 (3)
- 25: Breaking the Maya Code Video Review (3)
- 18: Ten Great Quick Calculators for Computer Users (11)
- 11: Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II Video Review (3)
May 2012 (2)
- 28: The Return of the Mythical Man Month (2)
- 23: Simulating Cell Chemistry for Health and Medicine (2)
April 2012 (1)
- 02: How the Hippies Saved Physics Book Review (4)
January 2012 (2)
- 19: Recent Data For Planning Mathematical Software Projects (1)
- 10: Estimating the Cost and Schedule of Mathematical Software (1)
December 2011 (1)
- 16: A Big List of Interesting Mathematics Books Released in 2011 (4)
October 2011 (2)
- 31: Animations of a Possible Cure for Cancer (14)
- 07: Tackling Cancer with Math (1)
September 2011 (2)
- 25: The Cold Hit Problem (2)
- 20: Are Fingerprints Unique? (5)
August 2011 (3)
- 29: The Magical Mathematics of Numb3rs (15)
- 20: What are the odds? Flipping 10 heads in a row (4)
- 15: Creating Cartoon Voices with Math (2)
July 2011 (2)
- 11: Can Mathematics Cure Cancer? (8)
- 05: Eberhardt Rechtin and the Barrier Course: A Case Study in Math Education (0)
June 2011 (3)
- 27: Protecting Valuable Intellectual Property in Octave (5)
- 20: Genius, Breakthroughs, and the Manhattan Project (14)
- 06: But It Worked in the Computer Simulation! (10)
May 2011 (5)
- 23: The Manhattan Project Considered as a Fluke (18)
- 21: When Will I Use Math? (11)
- 16: The Game of Life in Octave (2)
- 09: Associative Arrays and Cellular Automata in Octave (2)
- 02: Knowledge Is Power… Maybe (1)
April 2011 (2)
- 25: Plotting and Graphics in Octave (0)
- 18: Debating Deliberate Practice (7)
March 2011 (3)
- 25: Help us with your feedback by taking our survey (1)
- 16: Teaching Prime Numbers to Children (7)
- 07: Drexel University launches Financial Education in the Math Classroom site (1)
February 2011 (5)
- 21: A Closer Look at Maxima (2)
- 15: LAME: A Case Study in Mathematical Programming (5)
- 10: 30 Great Math Books as Recommended by Our Readers (7)
- 09: The Scope of Mathematical Programming Projects (4)
- 08: What’s your favorite math book? (0)
January 2011 (9)
- 31: Using Maxima Output in Octave (4)
- 26: Google Docs and LaTeX (10)
- 25: On Concavity, Calculus, and Crescents (3)
- 24: Using Octave, a Free MATLAB Alternative (6)
- 17: Octave: An Alternative to the High Cost of MATLAB (26)
- 13: Developing Math Intuition (1)
- 10: When Science Fails (3)
- 04: The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 (1)
- 03: Watch Khan Academy on your mobile device (1)
December 2010 (2)
- 31: The Joy of Stats (Video) (5)
- 30: Free Kindle Math Books (8)
November 2010 (1)
- 21: The Geometry of the MRB constant (9)
October 2010 (3)
- 30: Gold Fever (1)
- 12: Frankenstein Functions (4)
- 03: The Quantum Mystics (9)
September 2010 (5)
- 27: Symbolmania (16)
- 21: Bad Mathematics: A Trillion Dollar Problem (3)
- 20: Mathematical myths and legends (3)
- 14: Quantum Catfight (3)
- 03: Einstein: Superman or Super Stubborn? (3)
August 2010 (1)
- 17: Get weekly emails about new Mathematics books (3)
July 2010 (1)
- 23: In-Depth Book Review: The Computer as Crucible (2)
June 2010 (1)
- 28: Forget Pi, here comes Tau (45)
April 2010 (1)
- 12: Interview with Professor Marcus du Sautoy (0)
March 2010 (4)
- 22: Switching from Feedburner Email to AWeber for my newsletter (0)
- 15: Math Books reviewed and classified by area of mathematics (6)
- 14: Happy Pi Day! (6)
- 12: Discussing Research Level Mathematics Online (1)
January 2010 (1)
- 31: An Unreasonable Man (11)
December 2009 (1)
- 17: Kepler’s New Astronomy (3)
October 2009 (2)
- 25: Faster, Better, Cheaper Search Engines (4)
- 12: Interview with Derrick Niederman, author of Number Freak (5)
August 2009 (4)
- 24: The Cost of Not Understanding Probability Theory (33)
- 19: Improve your math and programming skills with Project Euler (6)
- 07: An apology to my feed readers (0)
- 04: Book Review: “Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World” (1)
July 2009 (4)
- 31: My mid-2009 math reading list (7)
- 27: Two Beautiful Mathematical Documentaries (23)
- 23: Rejecta Mathematica goes live (3)
- 20: Complex Algorithm Research and Development: Harder Than Many Think (17)
May 2009 (1)
- 18: An almost convincing start for Wolfram Alpha (6)
March 2009 (3)
- 14: Happy National Pi Day! (19)
- 10: A New Kind of Search (4)
- 06: Review of Math for Moms and Dads (4)
January 2009 (1)
- 30: Of Words and Variables (4)
December 2008 (1)
- 22: The nicest math book I own (26)
October 2008 (1)
- 24: Blogging in Math Class (6)
September 2008 (2)
- 28: Have You Heard of These 10 Female Mathematicians (26)
- 20: The Ultimate List of Math Cheat Sheets (39)
June 2008 (1)
- 08: Getting started with gnuplot (10)
May 2008 (1)
- 11: That’s impossible! (6)
March 2008 (3)
- 31: On the Importance of Mathematics (37)
- 21: An accessible Calculus book and Benjamin Franklin’s secret passion (6)
- 06: Polynomial Root-finding with the Jenkins-Traub Algorithm (7)
January 2008 (1)
- 23: Getting Math help in realtime (5)
December 2007 (1)
- 04: Where Math-Blog is headed (7)
November 2007 (1)
- 27: Rejecta Mathematica (9)
October 2007 (1)
- 18: I’m reading a fantastic mathematical novel (6)
September 2007 (1)
- 09: Thought-provoking Mathematical Videos (16)
July 2007 (1)
- 17: Ten Must Read Books about Mathematics (80)
June 2007 (2)
- 04: A 10 minute tutorial for solving Math problems with Maxima (147)
- 02: 3 awesome free Math programs (133)
May 2007 (3)
- 26: What kind of Math did they teach you? (17)
- 16: Refresh your High School Math skills (38)
- 13: The most enlightening Calculus books (77)

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