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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Hans Rosling, July 27, 1948 – February 7, 2017

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The power of numbers to help us understand our world.
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Friday, January 6, 2017

So THAT’s what it means? Visualizing the Riemann Hypothesis

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Two years ago, there was a sudden, viral spike in online discussion of the Ramanujan identity 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + . . . = –1/12 This id...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

You can find the secret to doing mathematics in a tubeless bicycle tire

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The author climbing the locally-notorious Country View Road just south of San Jose, CA As regular readers may know, one of my consumi...
Friday, November 4, 2016

Mathematical Milk and the U.S. Presidential Election

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Keith Devlin mails his completed election ballot. What does math have to say about his act? With the United States is the final throes...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

It was Twenty Years Ago Today

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The title of the famous Beatles song does not exactly apply to Devlin’s Angle . The online column (now run on a blog platform, but unlike m...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Then and Now: Devlin’s Angle Turned Twenty This Year

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Devlin’s Angle turned 20 this year. The first post appeared on January 1, 1996, as part of the MAA’s move from print to online. I was the ...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Mathematics and the End of Days

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A scene from Zero Days , a Magnolia Pictures resease. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures The new documentary movie Zero Days , writte...